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The Science of Immorality.
jo gentlemen.

BY

A WOMAN PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.

PHILADELPHIA :
Wm. H. Boyd, UT Sansom St.
1878.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by
Wm. H. BOYD,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER L
Introduction, 1

CHAPTER II.
Equality, 10

CHAPTER III.
Pure Manhood, 17

CHAPTER lY.
Hermaphrodites, - - 31

CHAPTER V.
Morning Sickness of Men, - - - - 45-

CHAPTER YL
Kissing, 49

CHAPTER YIL
Hymens, 53

iv CONTENTS.

CHAPTER YIII.
Seminal Weakness, -

57

CHAPTER IX.
Barrenness, 61

CHAPTER X.
Social Evil, 71

CHAPTER XI.
Hernia, 134

CHAPTER XIL
The Language of the iTerves, - 138

CHAPTER 1.

Introduction,

A number of "private treatises" have been written
'''to women exclusively," by men physicians. This
w^as before women were regular M. D's., or before any
woman had many years' practice in the profession.

If women generally can be benefited by such
books, it is but fair to suppose that men generally
may be benefited by women physicians writing
^'private treatises" to men, embodying advice, facts,
observations, discoveries, etc., that are all important
for men to learn in a pure way as matters of science,
instead of acquiring with the most degraded ideas
of life, and only such parts as are demoralizing and
filled wdth the grossest errors.

It is very evident that the great need of light
among men has not been properly met by men ;
spo man has elaborated on important points in the
direction that is most vital, and hence it becomes
the duty of whomsoever can peer into the darkness
with a light, to do so with all speed, even if such
light be no larger than a glow-worm, it may be the
humble means of guiding many a weary one into
a lost path, and of preventing myriads from losing
the path of rectitude who are now" approaching man-
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hood, to say nothing about those in the great future,
whose need for light shall be as great as those now
traveling in the bewildering paths of existence.

Knowledge must ever be the basic principle upon
which the purest morals are founded. It is upon
this corner stone of life's monumental building that
grand towers of soul reach the zenith of human ex-
cellence in middle age, and are crowned with the
beautiful verdure of ripe years' real worth.

With all the strides that have been made in art
and science for the past one hundred years, the
philanthropist must view with the deepest sorrow
that but little progress has been made in morals, so
little, that the men who even make pretensions to
purity of manhood are conspicuously few. The ma-
jority of men have no high moral standard, but with-
out shame assert that they are as good as any other
men, and carry the idea, that, as they have become self-
complacent, women ought to be satisfied with what-
ever standard of morals men choose to be reconciled
to for themselves.

Men would be amazed if women should assert that
such a standard was a low one and did not corres-
pond with a true woman's ideas of noble manhood,
and that it was just as good a standard for woman's
morale as it is for men's, (a position that is just as
fair for women to take as for men, as any one with
logic must admit.)

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Women feel this inequality most poignantly, and
deplore the low position taken by men, as few men.
can ever understand. "Woman's silence upon the sub-
ject mislead men into the idea that they are indiffer-
ent to man's morals. Men never hear the eloquent
speeches of women of all ages when this subject is
discussed in the homes of all grades of women, and
the despair that settles over their faces as the want
of pure manhood is felt by them with no hope of
ever having the general ideas of men any better, and
women being compelled to marry such men if they
ever marry at all. While men are so ignorant of
the real aspirations of women they will continue to
wrong them.

Men assume a right to have all relationships with
women outside of marriage because they are inen^
and then assume the right to desert such women as
beneath their contempt, and illogically reasoning
both ways, assert that such women were not equals
with them, because they yielded when unable either
mentally or physically or financially to resist them..

Every art, often not at all understood by woman,
is used to entrap her into such relationship when she
does not fully understand the strength of her own
passjpns and certainly not of men's, and she is placed
in a position where she cannot possibly be fore-
warned ; if not forewarned in a manner to make her
disrespect all manhood, in a word, to be constantly

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on the alert believing every man a seducer. If he
is not such, it is not for want of encouragement from
the great masses of men in the following way : The
arts and traps of seduction are talked over by men
before boys, and so the youths grow up in the belief
that there is something smart in taking advantage
of women, and that it is the most telling evidence
of manhood possible. Brought up in such a school
it is more a misfortune than a fault that men as a
mass have so little moral conscience, for there is little
or no direct influence to counteract such schooling,
and the lessons in defective conscience and low ebb
of soul are so often given, that the most poisonous
and deleterious stuff becomes a part of the man.

It is true that perni^ous teachings are graded to
some extent among men and boys in the different
classes of society, but the same ideas of their im-
moral rights that men believe to be their preroga-
tives as men^ tliat all other men are called upon to
respect as rights and women to tolerate, are the bases
of jokes, good-natured slanders and pleasantry.

Men tacitly acknowledge each others right to their
own code of morals, and an exclusive right to their
own victims is asserted with threats, fists and bullets.
Such decisions of the rights of weak-moraled men to
weak-minded women are heralded almost every day.

The thieves of woman's self respect have wide
ranges of "codes of honor." Such men call those

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who live better lives than themselves, fools, and those
who live worse ones, brutes, which is an insult to the
brute creation, since no animal can be found that is
as bad as some men.

The masses of men do not believe that one man
ever lived, except Christ, who did not exercise what
he deemed "manhood rights in degrading some
woman," and there are men who even doubt Christ's
pure life in this regard.

There are many restraining influences with men,
but the greatest is fear, without which the exercise of
the basest passions (or rather the violation of the natu-
ral laws) would be so great that the race would soon
become extinct. But the "fear" is not concerning the
results on the soul or body of their victims, but that
their own bodies may suffer from some law that shall
be enforced in the shape of disease, or of some human,
law that is administered by individuals in the shape
of cold lead globes, or sharp pointed steel if not in
prison cells, or in hemp circles.

Where no common law prevails, men treat women
as though they had not a single right of existence,
and but for their living, adding to men's sexual
gratification, they would not be allowed to live at
all.

Where common law does prevail, women are con-
stantly writhing under the inequality of law as re-
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more and more j ust laws are enacted by them. Laws
are made by men who have not a remote idea of liv-
ing up to them, believing themselves clever enough
to infringe them without publicity, and thus pass
:for much better men than they really are, while the
selfish making of protection laws is for the double
purpose of protecting their victims for their own
use, whether such women be wives or mistresses.

And yet men have failed to enact laws of this
character that are sufficiently potential to do away
with, the necessity for individual administration of
bullet or knife law. A certain class of men are re-
strained by nothing less potent than this kind of law,
and but for such law being occasionally administered
by the relatives of women or by the victimized women
themselves, there would be much more of iniquity
than there is at present, although one is almost led
to exclaim, how can the world be much worse than
it is ?

There is a fearful moral confusion that certainly
appalls one who looks upon every grade of society as
it really is.

While every man has his code of honor in relation
to women, nearly all of these codes can be summed
up in the following list.

1. The code of a pure life, where no sexual wrongs
to himself or to a woman have ever existed, but
^here every woman is treated with the same deference

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a8 though she was his honored mother or sister, where
his wife is treated with all the acknowledged rights
as though she were physically stronger than himself,
and perfectly independent of him in all regards.

That there are so few with this code, is why there
/ is BO much of contention, strife, rapes, seductions
\ and murders. There can he none of these evils where
men live up to the nohle standard of true manhood.

2. The code of " sowing wild oats " and then
i. marrying a pure girl and settling down, and prid-
Hng himself on being one of the very best of men,

never once dreaming that there can be any better
•specimens of manhood, or thinking that he has any
obligations to that pure girl, in keeping himself pure
for her, as she has been keeping herself for him.

3. The code of living life ISTo. 2, being equally careful
not to have any slanders in the shape of illegitimate
children, and like No. 2, boasting that they "never

^visited a public woman, or seduced a girl.'" — But all
through life having relationship sexual with so-called
^respectable women, married and single. Sometimes
men with this code marry and sometimes do not, but
always living the same life, making their marriage a
convenience, if they ever do conclude to marry, and
with their associates talk jocosely over the conve-

'^i nience of having a wife, when there are reasons why
|it is not policy or pleasure to go elsewhere. They
use every art to keep their wives in the belief of their

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faithfulness to them, and laugh at the idea of a jeal-
ous thought in them, or frown and hecome angry at
such a suspicion.

4. The code of this class is to visit reputable houses,
talk up marriage, court several different girls, (tak-
ing precaution to have them in different places,
or in different circles of society,) seduce under pro-
mise of marriage through force or fear, help them out
of enceinte condition, carry on the game until he
wearies of his victim, or she finding he will not marry
discards him. Those of this class boast that they
are "as good as any men" among their chums. They
boast of their conquests and get rid of some of their
victims by getting some other fellow to play the
same game and then twit the girl with unfaithful-
ness to them as a cause for desertion.

5. The code of this class is to visit disreputable
houses, make bargains and sales, and would despise
seducing girls, or invading other men's families —
pure sexual gratification is the one idea, and the
quality is little to be considered. More married men
than single ones patronize such houses. We shall
give the reasons therefor hereafter

This class treat respectful women with much more
deference than the seducers wdio boast of never going
to a bad house.

6. The code of this class is to be constantly on the
alert for victims, and their 'thirst for variety'^leads

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them into the most dishonorable means to accomj)lish
ends. Rapes are committed by them and even small
girls are victims.

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CHAPTER 11.

Equality.

If men would only reason, tliey would very soon
understand that the true position of women is al-
ways one of equality with themselves in all the rela-
tions of life. This is true, taken not only from the
most just, humane and noble standpoints, but from
the most interested and selfish ones, for not only are
the children stronger, healthier, more intellectual and
less irritable, having a stronger hold on life, but from
the merest sensual motives, this is true: where the
wife is simj^ly a grown up governed child, always
more or less under the dominant will of the husband,
!:she can never give the strength and satisfaction to
the husband in the sexual relation that she would if
^n individualized woman, with all the distinct mag-
ifietic power that only such women can impart.

The more of selfhood a woman possesses, the
greater the ability to concentrate all of nerve power
in the relation which she willingly engages in
for reproduction in a pure monogamic love that is
not robbed of the fineness of the relation by the
degredation of partial or complete compulsion.
While such a relation is not love^ there must be love
with it, or it is an injury to both parties in the trans-

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action ; with love and respect there comes a peaceful
satisfied condition of both body and mind. Excess,
however, brings irritability and unrest. This would

Xbe avoided by sleeping separately. Much of the dis-
gust that at times is so unbearable would be avoided
if the matters of making and un-making toilets were
done in separate rooms. Few people are so bound
too;ether in soul that there is not an ill-concealed
disgust for private toilet matters, and even the ordi-
nary arrangement of the clothes.

However pleased with the person when clothed,
the dressing and undressing transition, after a little
time, becomes an endured unpleasantness.

^ Several cases have come to our knowledge where
women could not void fluids when their husbands
were in the room, no matter how dark the night or
how long they had been married. Women have
suffered much, and made an effort to do so for an
hour at a time, and although in severe pain because
of the necessity, it was impossible to be relieved until

u Men have had to partially dress and stand outside
of their own rooms in hotels, before their wives were
1*^ able to get relief.

Children are often severely punished for not attend-
ing to the calls of nature before retiring, and invariably
doing so as soon as put to bed and left alone. If they

were entirely alone.

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were tied in their toilet chairs and left alone for a
few minutes the result would be accomplished.

This is a peculiar condition of the system that
few grown people understand. They can under*
stand their failure to respond to the calls of nature,
when they enter a closet that is so disgusting that
the inclination of nature immediately leaves them.

Fistulas often result where a person so disgusted is
placed where there is no alternative but to visit such
a closet. Every house however small in towns and
cities ought to have closet plumbing where water
flows abundantly, so that the calls of nature would
not be so dreaded and postponed.

It is found that constipated bowels caused by post-
/ ponement of the calls of nature so irritates the organs.

I. of sex, that much of immorality is the result. There
must be an equality of rights of the organs of the
human system. If one is free to eat and drink, there
must also be freedom to evacuate the solids and fluids
in order to have peace in the system.

All should know the evils of exciting influences
on the organs of reproduction, and both boys and
girls should be equal in such knowledge.

Men as Avell as women sufter from inequality of
knowledge as well as of rights and privileges in the
various relations of life. Men who deny any rights
to women on account of their superior physical
strength, sooner or later have their own rights as

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men interfered with, because the sentiment of ty-
ranny is ever encroaching more and more; it is not
safe to deny any one rights that belong to alL

In the middle ages men were mutilated (castrated)
so that they could sing like women in their choirs.
They would not admit the women in the choirs at
:all, and the great injustice to women was visited
upon the sons of men, because they must have the
voices of women and could not get them without muti-
lating men when they would not acknowledge
woman's ris-ht to sins;.

Mutilated men are devoid of fine sensibilities, and
are harsh and unfeeling and even cruel.

These cruel men were, and are to this day, the
guardians of the women of the Harems. They ac-
company them whenever they are allowed to go out,
and hold them under constant surveillance. AYomen
herded in this way bear children that are tyrants
from birth, being marked by those who tyrannized
over them. Their failure to make advances in civi-
lization, is owino; to the manner in whicli the women
are treated. But a few years will elapse before the
men of this country will be able to see themselves
reflected in the glass of as gross inconsistency as the
men to whom we refer. Men may laugh at the idea
of women singing in public, or even uncovering
their faces being ^'out of woman's sphere, and out
of the delicate proprieties of life, and making women

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unlit to be wives or even good enough to be called
women^^^ but let men remember, that it is only a piece
of the same barbarism that allows men to be the
dictators of women in anything that relates to exis-
tence.

Nothing less than perfect equality of rights will
ever result in the greatest happiness, and the grandest
possibilities.

Enlightened women look upon any interference
with human rights of women, whether as regards a
failure to pass a law to protect woman in her clearly
expressed right of suffrage in the Constitution, or
any human rights, as being as great a barbaric w^ng,
as men can possibly deem the mutilation wrongs of
men. They diifer only in degree but not in kind^
for both stab in the same direction. Both seek to
be the masters of the special functions of sex.

A marked instance of oppression to women, result-
in«: in cruelty to boys is apparent in the Turkish
; Harem, where boys from 10 to 15 years of age are
kept in large numbers for licentious acts in the rec-
tum, which results in agonized death from inflamma-
tion.

Enlightened countries are becoming more just tO'
women, but still we are shocked with facts like the
following that v/ill soon be obsolete in England, as
they are already in America, owing to the advance
of public sentiment beyond the codes :

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]^ot many years since an English court decided^
that a man might beat his wife with a stick not
larger than his little finger, continuing to legalize
this relic of barbarism.

If a woman was untrue to her husband in Athens ^
he could take away all her property, beat her, and
sell her at auction, but he could do what he pleased.'

Mohammed ordained that untrue wives should be
buried alive, but afterwards decided that they should;
be stoned to death.

In Egypt an untrue wife's nose was cut off, while-
in Germany her hair was cut short.

In the Polynesian Islands the wives are not allowed-
to eat the same food as the husbands, or cook it at
the same fire.

In China, the women have so many disadvantages^^
that they are constantly praying that in the next
world they may be men. Husband and wife may
mutually agree to separate, but if the wife leaves
without his consent, he may strangle her. Talka-
tiveness, or a disregard of parents in law, are causes
for a man's divorce.

All of these inequalities of sex have their penal-
ties. But we have neither time or space to elabo-
rate truths that need but a mention. It is because
of the inequality of rights of sex, that so much of
outrage is perpetrated by men of all ages. Eapes on
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tempted by young men often giving them venereal
disease. Boys from a dozen to eighteen years of age,
..are often fomid attempting to outrage little girls, and
\as boys commence so young to pursue the vices so
well understood by the constant talk before them of
men hardened in crime, no boy is too young to read
this book, and his special attention should be called
to the chapters on Pure Manhood, and the Language
of the ITerves. Small boys should learn that vice so de-
grades the boy that the man is capable of outrages
far worse than murders, and that by ''slow degrees
the tempter wins ; then step by step they give up
all," and become perfect demons ; and as an illustra-
tion the following is related :

In the war with the Larmates, Emperor Proclus,
in fifteen days, violated one hundred virgins who
^ were his captives.

American men will violate their wives while men-
struating, which even an American Indian is never
\ guilty of doing. Perfect equality of men and wo-
^ men in all the relations of life would produce the
best results to men as well as women.

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CHAPTER III.
Pure Manhood.

We have searclied books in vain for any descrip-
tion of a pure man. We expected that in works de-
voted exclusively to men, where the virginity of wo-
man is so freely discussed, that the virgin man would
have a descriptive mention, but in such books as
in all others, we have failed to find any mention of
the physical signs of manhood virginity. Such a
neglect in works advocating either pure marriage or
continence , is, to say the least, most remarkable. But
a scientific and metaphysical writer cannot let the sub-
ject rest until investigation proves whether or not
woman alone has signs of a virgin condition, whether
Xsuch signs are not equally marked in man. It would
not need much thought to conclude that any portion
of the body put to new use would be likely to be
changed in some measure, and particularly a portion
of such importance as the procreating organs.

The signs of virginity in woman is a topic that all
writers on private treatises, whether to men or wo-
men, always speak of and make a tlxeme of the
greatest importance in proving the chastity of women,
as though man had any more right to expect to find
a perfectly chaste wife, than woman had to find
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a chaste husband, and not until withhi a few years
has the world been very well enlightened upon the-
subject, and learned that even in some marriages^
there has been only external copulation yet concep-
tion has taken place and a hymen as perfect as is
ever found, seen by the attending obstetrician.

On the other hand, after marriage when perfect
copulation has occurred many times, the entrance of
the vagina has contracted so rigidly when the act
was repeated, that more effort was required to com-
plete copnlation than at the first act after marriage^
These facts learned from the most reliable persons,,
prove that the copnlation signs of chastity in woman
are not to be relied upon, and by so much stress having
been placednpon such signs, much of wretchedness has
resulted to men for want of confidence in their wives'
chastity, that has been cruelly thurst into the wives'
faces, who were powerless to explain the difference
between a delicate little membrane at the entrance of
the vagina called the hymen, that has been forced to
yield so soon after marriage, that the relaxing mois-
ture of the parts has not prepared it to yield without
great effort and pain. In after conditions where
'the system of woman has received all of that kind
of excitement that it can bear, the muscles of the
vagina contract and refuse to receive more, although
the woman may still desire to gratify her husband
even if not at the time congenial to her. Most

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married men have had the hymen theory very much
muddled by this after condition, at all periods in the
\lives of married women.

But very few men ever stoj) to consider their own
inconsistency in demanding such purity from their
wives, since, if they were themselves pure, they
could not so readily doubt the chastity of women.
It is strange that men can be so thoughtless as not
to know that their own want of conscience in the
maidenly purity of their wives, and their ability to
judge of the same, would lead their wives to distrust
them in their own youthful purity, for how can a
/young man judge of a wije's condition if he is not
I able to draw comparisons with a mistress.

Had not women studied the medical profession,
and studied into this one-sided virtue business, the
world might still have gone on without women ever
knowing that the signs of man's virtue ixre un mistak-
able, although there are but few comparatively who
are virtuous long enough to know themselves what
are the sure signs of a virtuous man. We doubt not
that by far the greater part of men in middle life and
old age, believe that there are no signs of virtue in
men, but that what is a sign, is undeveloped manhood,
since they have not thought upon the subject enough
to consider the time and cause of the physical change
in the penis. Men make their wives believe ''the
power to make an erection and leave the franum

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praeputii of the penis all next to the scrotum, is
simply an omen of perfect manhood that is develop-
ed with time, and gradually grows away from its
attachments. This is all false, but is a story gener-
ally told wives who are always contrasting the dif-
ference in the attachments of the cuticle on infants
and the freedom from attachment of the same on
their husbands, and hence the very natural question
as to the time when, the change takes place.

So firm and unyielding is the attachment, and so
painful any attempt to free the same from near the
head of the penis, that only under the greatest ex-
citement, a number of times, will it tear away, and
every time there will be some, more or less slight,
blood discharged from the torn membranes.

Masturbation will not tear this away ; sexual relations
alone loill do so, and when this unmistakable sign of
man's virginity is generally understood, boys will,
with proper training, make men that will honor
manhood.

Youno; women who were not chaste have not dared
to marry doctors, and the time has arrived when
young men who are not chaste do not dare to marry
doctors, for the same reasons that young women have
had, and continue to have, and the time is not dis-
tant when young men will not dare to marry pure
w^omen anywhere, however young, for women will
be informed upon this subject.

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A number of men living to be 30 years old and;
over, have married with unmistakable signs of hav-
ing lived a perfectly pure life, and the harshness upon
wedding nights that unchaste men have been guilty
of, was impossible with them, because of the effects-
on their virginity not only, but that selfish reckless
disregard of a wife, that unchaste men evince in the^
sexual relation is not known, but a tender regard is--
ever observable. ^
Where husband and wife are both virgins,

sexual relations on both sides will be moderate and :
mutual, and satisfactory, and soothing, for husband
will not seek to gratify unreasonable desire, because^
he will not have such a desire. It will be weeks and
perhaps months before the fullness of the relation is
experienced by either, just as it is always some time
I before the fullness is reached byj3ure woman without
I regard to whom she has married. w.«««^^
\ Chaste women who marry unchaste men, are often/
^- three months in reaching and sometimes never reachX
a perfection of orgasm in sexual relation, owing /
to the fact of the husband having lost magnetic
power by his unchastity, and thus unfitting himself
to become a father for her children, by being unable
to father the highest type of humanity that shall be-
superior to both parents which should result.

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live chaste lives is more a misfortune than a fault,
as is often the case with women.

Men are, when mere boys, allowed to go into all
sorts of chance company with little or no regard as
to the moral character of the same, with no warnings
as to results on soul, and seldom a w^ord about the
results on the body. Parents, mothers as well as
fathers, think because the public places so low an
estimate upon the morals of men, that they have few
if any responsibilities regarding the morals of their
sons. They cannot bear babies and bring disgrace
upon them, and they have little or no organized
thought about sons bringing disgrace into other peo-
ple's families. Few people look away beyond dis-
grace, that is but the opinion of other people ; they
do not get a sight of the wrongs to their bodies that
are not immediately perceptible. The masses of
men reason but little on the most important subjects
relating to social life. They are contented to know
the arts relating to the attainment of passional aims,
and the ordinary preventives of deleterious results ;
but they do not even learn the plain lessons taught
constantly : what will spoil the horse will spoil the
man. The variety and excess of the horse causes
him to be excited beyond control at the sight of a
mare, no matter of how inferior breed and how poor
condition she may be in at the time. And so men
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power of control, and take any women they can that j
chances to be near, for like the horse, licentious'
thoughts are ever uppermost in their minds, and they
conclude that there is not a woman in the world but
that would pursue the same course as himself with
her price paid. There are large numbers of men
who cannot be made to believe that there is a single
man or woman who live pure lives, because their own
lives and their observations of others have led them
! to such a conclusion. One of the most common ex-
pressions from men when the subject ot pure man-
hood is alluded to, is this : "Men are all about alike,
some are more shrewd than others."

No man can ever tell how chilling such expressions
and those of similar import are to pure women, who
^vould love with a worshipful devotion the embodi-
l^ment of pure manhood. But men cannot understand
such chilling of the soul, until the best women make
similar assertions about all other women — imagine
such a condition ye good men, and see if, no matter
what troubles you have braved like philosphers, see
if, we repeat, you do not require all your brains to
resist suicidal inclinations. iNTothing else in life
comes home to the soul with such crushing Aveight
as the loss of confidence in sexual purit}'. Life
seems to be robbed of the charm of all charms when
the permanent friendship of uncompromising confi-
dence has been destroj'ed. Only the skeleton of the

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individual is left. What was thought to be genuine
substance proves to be but a fleeting shadow in
sunshine, tiiat is lost all together in twilight and
darkness. For with a disregard of pure selfhood,
saved and retained for the partner of life, there is
loss of so much of fineness of soul and body, power
of soul and body grandness, that it would take
volumes to write out all the same in a complete
» manner. The horse cannot have sexual relations
I with a cross balky mare, a big-legged mare, one of
1 inferior size, inferior breed, or of any description
I and ever recover from the magnetic eflfect. The parts
having contact may be immediately washed after
the relation, but there is no power to take from him
Nthe mare's impress left upon him that will be trans-
mitted sooner or later to his posterity. So marked
is this that some of the colts from the best breed of
mares, sired by the best breed of horses, have par-
taken of the dispositions and looks of mares that
held sexual relations with the horse months and
even years before. The male takes upon himself
these magnetisms to a wonderful extent, indeed they
become as much a part of him as are his feet or any
other part. So is it with men, and they take up
these magnetisms and retain them in their systems,
; and transmit them to posterity. Men may discard the
women with whom they have had sexual relations
but they will find, no matter how low or degraded

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they may have been that their children will inherit^ ^
the traits and often the looks of their mistresses.

This is a law that cannot be avoided but does not
stop here. Like all other great laws, there are many
deleterious effects that loom up in importance as we
follow the various winding paths outside of the
clearly defined one of rectitude.

The worst effects as regards such transmission
comes upon men^ because the life and power of the
spermatozoa is magnetic in its unconscious life and
power, and receives from the man the wonderful but
as yet but partially understood impress upon the
nerve centers, that time can never eradicate, and
when this subject is fully understood by boys, they
will cut off their right hands before they will thus
wrong their own soul's tabernacle, and destroy the
power to give to their posterity the sublime traits of
their pure wives.

Prostitution will never be stopped until men are
educated on these points, and it is because we so
fully realize this that we have done what no other
woman has dared to do, lectured and written to men
vexclusively on these important subjects.

But we have not yet reached the depths of the
injury that promiscuous relationship brings. As
soon as conception takes place, the blood of the
spermatozoa begins to circulate in the veins of the-
wife, and the magnetic power of the spermatozoa

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also diffuses itself into the magnetism of the wife.
The circulation of both increases in strength and
quantity the whole nine months and so the very ele-

(ments of the unchaste, that the husband has gathered
-up in his former relationship with those unfortunate
women, is circulating in the bones and muscles and
nerves of his wife, through the arteries, veins and
nerves, and she can never eradicate it from her sys-
tem, ^oi only will the children inherit more or less
of all these traits, but in thousands of instances
Niave the once pure wives had so much of the prosti-
tute elements, or thieving elements or drunken ele-
ments pervading their system from the husband in-
heritance, that they have eventually been overpow-
ered by them, and the good originally in such wives
has lost the controlling power in their whole or-
ganization.

That these effects on different people are varied
according to the laws of the modification of laws, as
yet but very imperfectly understood must be acceded
to by all reasoners. Close observation tells us that
these mysterious laws can be delved into still deeper
than human eye has yet peered, and that from a
knowledge of what is now already clear, we may yet
solve unthought of problems called ''unknowables."

There are those who can never be convinced of in-
tricate facts unless the most striking evidences are
\ witnessed, like a blonde woman whose blonde husband

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Las had sexual relations with a squaw or an African,^
becoming the mother of a genuine papoose, or a pure
African child.

The law of modification often steps in and gives
a specimen of a child where only the negro texture
shows itself in the rigid curls of the flaxen hair, or
of a complexion and hair that is midway in color.

The peculiar traits of character, disposition and
predisposition are often more marked than the looks
of the face, and not unfrequently the Avant of tenure
of life is a telltale of no small moment, and the only
easily discovered evidence of outraged law.

There is another depth regarding the influence of
the magnetism of presence^ that is still more ditflcult
of explanation than even the mysterious contagious
elements of disease, as seen in fevers, small pox, or
epizootic, that could not have originated from any
process of fear in the minds of horses, unless they
have reasoning powers that they are supposed to be
deficient in, or unless there is a power of mind in
the human that so infused the animal hundreds of
miles awa}^, that the eftects were the same as though
there had actually been exposure to the disease.

We often feel most miserable in the presence of
some people without any seeming reason, and feel
happy in the presence of others, experiencing an in-
describable something in regard to such presence,
that we know not how to commence to investio^ate.

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We feel it beyond our mental depth to reason it out^
and like the mystery of mysteries that we every day
behold in nature, we yield the point and plod along
with a reluctant dismissal of the whole subject from
our minds for the time, as the too barren results of
such thoughts weary us, without convincing us that
their solving is an utter impossibility. The deeper-
one delves into metaphysics the wider the field seems
to expand.

Dr. Franklin touched the keynote of electricity
for the business world ; but who shall be able to so
trace humanities' magnetic power, and so touch its
key, that the masses shall heed its moral warnings ?

The world must be made better by understanding
the intricate laws of human development in body
and in mind. For the masses to comprehend th&
physical effects of unchastity, outside of the produc-
tion of illegitimate children or of venereal diseases,
but little reading is necessary if plain language is
used. But the wonderful effect upon the 7nind re-
quires such deep methodical thought, that but few
minds are accustomed to habits of clear arrangement
of their thoughts so that they could express them-
selves intelligently on subjects that must reach the
deepest convolutions of the brain.

As the sexual relation calls for the most intense
nerve excitement, and the strongest and most power-
ful and concentrated emotions, so does it as surely

PURE MANHOOD.

<3all forth and receive the brain impressions, that in
spite of all other considerations, are lasting and
transmissable. And those who associate in the sex-
/ ual relation with the low, the ignorant, the vile, the '\
l£ckle,the mimethodical in thought, the undeveloped
in mind, cannot avert the law of effects upon them-
selves that they are powerless to throw off.

Man}^ a man of brilliant talents and fine cultured
has become a mere cypher in the world from this ) '
<3ause. Many that have attained intellectual emi-
nence have failed to become the bright stars they might
have been, but for this cause. ^

It is lamentable that the incentives to pure man-
hood are so few. Those who are the honorable ex-
ceptions in society with all kinds of codes of honor,
are not the favored men of the time, because they are '
so rare that women do not know how to treat them.i*'
And so they look about them and see the worst rakes ^ .
present the favorite beau of the evening with the '
purest Avomen of all ages.

Such is the demeanor of a pure man that the women
are not aware of his purity, only in exceptional
instances. The purest of women with their general
association with men not morally sound, do not ap-
pear the same women used to, when there was less
corruption among men. Men themselves do not ap-
pear the same, if we can credit those who lived a
half a century since as young men and maidens.

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But let US hope that we shall see no deeper degrada-
tion of sex, but that with knowledge shall come rapid
strides towards a pure manhood, with those who
have ignorantly degraded themselves, and that know-
ledge shall be so diffused that the young men shall
all grow up as pure as they could wish the young:
women to be that they shall sometime marry.

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CHAPTER lY.

Hermaphrodites-
Perfect hermaphrodites are very rare, although all
cases of partial defective organs of sex are generally
spoken of as hermaphrodites. Cases are related where
persons after having been married as men for several \
years,were afterwards married as women, and in both;
relations there was mutual satisfaction, with the ex-,
ception of there being no posterity. What were the'
antenatal conditions of these cases, no one is able
to relate, as far as we are informed.

They are always licentious, owing to an inheritance '
of the same irritability of the organs of sex, and to
defective moral sentiments that were antenatal con-
ditions. They never menstruate unless they have a.^
penis, and then the menstrual fluid is never passed,]
except when they urinate.

The parents of children born with defective or-
gans of sex have always felt that they were dis-
graced, and in some way at fault for such an occur-
rance although they generally have no definite idea
of the direct cause.

It has been our fortune to have complete histories
of such cases from our own observations, and it needs-
but little evolution of thought to establish principles
that are axioms with such keys.

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Hermaphrodites are but legitimate results of abuse
of either or both soul and body. No woman's body
can be abused without a suffering of soul, and vice
versa.

We relate cases to prove our position in instances
so marked, that the least logical cannot fail to be
convinced of the correctness of our position.

Mr. , married a fine, healthy and beautiful

girl of eighteen years of age,when he was about twenty-
two. He had been living in a promiscuous manner
since he was fifteen years of age, with no restraints upon
his animal nature, daily cultivating the same until he
lost the power of self-restraint. He had no respect for
womanhood and no regard, only so far as he could
be sexually gratified, and the remonstrance of his
wife when menstruating, the disgust at the time, and
the terrible debility and irritability after, had no ef-
fect upon him but to complain of her want of dis-
position to please him. {She of course had no busi-
ness to have any thought about herself.) Herself and
orphan sister of sixteen years were sole occupants of
his house.

Every night he had sexual relations with his wife
three or four times, except when she was menstrua-
ting, and then he, a little time after marriage, made
his wife's menstrual period an excuse to force the
sister into such relationship. He was so brutal and
tyrannical, and such were his threats of vengeance if

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tliey either left the house or exposed him, that the
matter was kept quiet. His wife bore him one child,
a dauo-hter, and both wife and sister died soon after
with consumption, caused by venereal disease that
he had given them.

The child is now about eight years of age, feeble and
timid but utterly devoid of any vagina.

1^0 doubt but that mother's mind was so firmly
fixed on her child, (if a girl,) being protected from
man's abuse, that her mental influence caused the
physical defect in her daughter.

A young woman of twenty-five in this same con-
( dition, married a man in Washington, J). C, and
when the discovery was made by her husband, a di-
vorce was the finale, although she begged and pleaded
\for t\ie friendship of marriage -Midi consented to allow
him any immoral liberties he might desire with
others.

Two families of young couples in ^N'ew York, were
living near neighbors. Each had one child. Their
intimacy resulted in one of the men taking the other
man's wife and eloping with her.

After a few months they returned and the aftairs
were so settled that one couple again lived in their
married relations. The deserted wife became enceinte
soon after and as soon as she was sure of her situa-
tion she applied to her physician for medicine to de-
stroy the foetus. When we told her that we could
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not give her anything, she remarked with a great
deal of anger, that as her luisband had once deserted
her, she hoped that if her child was a girJ that "it
would never be able to have a husband's relation, and
if a boy that it w^ould never be able to be a husband.'^
When the time of her accoiichment arrived we at-
tended her and found the child entirely wanting in
a vao-ina and anus.

The external labia were present and an enlarged
clitoris that was really a defective penis, from which
both the urine and the feces w^ere voided, but there
was no other developments of sex, and without any
seaming cause except the painful passing of the feces
the child died in about a week.

Among those who saw this strange freak of na-
ture, was Mrs. Safrona Falley N'ye, whose husband
was an eminent Methodist clergyman stationed at
Rome, ^ew York.

The Author became acquainted with Miss Falley
while a student years previously at an institution
largely endowed and named after her parents in Ful-
ton, Oswego county, 'New Yoriv. This ladies' sym-
pathies led her to call upon the poor mother of a
child wdiose defective organs w^ould preclude all grand
intellectual possibilities, not only, but cleverness in
any direction.

A man about thirty, in a good position with a
quiet immoral reputation, w^as married to a girl of

1. Internal labia and clitoris forming a defective penis.
:2. External labia.

^. Lower part of the malformation.

4. Leg.

5. Where vagina should be.

6. Where the anus should be.

Herrnaphrodite,

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twenty ; one cliild was born before a year had passed^
and a second one in a year after. This last was six
or seven months old when w^e were called to see it.
The anus was perfect as was the testes, but the penis
w^as defective and resembled the enlarged, closed cli-
toris just described and illustrated.

There was no cuticle close to the pubes nor over
the bladder for a space half as large as an ordinary
saucer and much the shape. The muscles were and
/had been from birth as perfectly exposed as though
{ the cuticle had been removed with a knife. Serum
^vas constantly exuding so agonizing the child that
/ no one but the mother could be induced to endure
j its never ceasing irritability, moaning and frequent
\screechings.

The father had compelled the mother to sobmit
to sexual relations every night three times, and every^^
day before he took his dinner, up to the day of her
accouchment ; pleadings and explanations of disgust/
and agony were all unavailing, although he used no
stimulants except cigars. This man has held a -pom-
tion given him through the ballots of the people,,
{7ne7i.)

To the credit of the Jews be it said, that their re-
^^digion protects women for twelve days out of every
\month. Is it surprising that so few women among-
the Jews will ever marry men of other faiths when
there is no protection for them ? These outrages^ ar^^

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beyond the sphere of men's legislation ; and when
wives are goaded into suicides or murders, where can
a man be found that peers into the facts of the easel
Such women are too poor to fight with law for
divorces, and have too much maternal love to leave
their children, well knowing that men's laws will not
give them to their real owner, because mothers cannot
support them according to their judgment, of what
a proper support for a child must be, forgetting that a
mother will bring up her children better- alone in
X^overtj, than with a bad husband having wealth.

While we write, thousands of women are praying
for death to relieve them from sexual abuse, looking
no farther into labyrinths of the evil eftects of sex
tyranny, than their own personal agony.

Men will be better when the true principles of
social life are fully unmasked. They reflect their
knowledge of social life from their own standpoint,
but how dense and dark have been the clouds through
which the few rays of grandeur of soul have been
reflected.

The effects upon the mind are not so clear to the
masses, as mental efforts require thought to dis-
cern them, and the masses obtain more ideas from
sight than from thought. Thi nking wearies more than
looking, and the power of methodical thought is not
easily acquired without some inheritance, although
it is acquired by a course of training. There are

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but few metaphysical minds and such learn how
difficult it is for the masses to progress where much
thought and reasoning are required. The clearest
/the most lucid arguments are often counted for
naught because the average mind cannot grasp
xheir full meaning. A great amount of systematic
thinking is required to trace cause to effect and ef-
fect to cause and the masses not being methodical
thinkers fail to grasp the full scope of deep reason-
ing, and to delve deeply into metaphysical subjects.
But the facts related reocardino- well known cases of
hermaphrodites, and the every day to be seen marks
of mothers on children ought to arouse thought
among men of but ordinary intelligence.

In every community there are many cases of people
with clearly defined antenatal marks upon them, and
some who are deformed from the same cause.

A gentleman l)rought a very large orange to his
wife who was enceinte a few weeks. She thouo-ht it
would seem far from generous not to divide, although
she very much desired the whole of the orange.
When her child was born there was an orange at-
tached to its back with a little stem.

A young woman who was a few weeks enceinte^
had her sympathies so aroused regarding a child
about seven years old that could not talk, and, be-
lieving its mother derelict in trying to teach her, took
the case in hand but failed to better her condition.

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When her child was born it was deaf, and at the
present time, cannot say but a few words, although
much older than children who talk well.

There are many cases of blood marks on the face,
caused by the enceinte mother having a favorite ani-
mal slaughtered, or being shown an injury of some
sort.

It is needless to multiply cases. Facts suggest
remedies in many cases ; if anything in diet is longed
for, it by all means should be procured if possible,
as there is some want in the system that ought to be
supplied.

"When unusual sights are forced upon the attention,
woman ought to be instructed to place her mind upon
the subject, and resolve that it shall not affect the
child in utero, and particularly, should woman re-
solve to have perfect children as regards sex, that
there shall be no more occasions for letters similar
to the following being written :

Dr. : — At your request I furnish you the following
statement :

About the year 1848, a patient in man's apparel,
aged about twenty-eight years, applied at the (Cleve-
land (Ohio) Medical College for treatment as aclinic
subject. The external genital organs were those of
I a male, of usual development except that the scro-
\ tum contained no testicles. The subject complained
at regular intervals of about a lunar month, of pains

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in the pelvic regions, similar to those of menstural
colic, followed by a free menstrual discharge from
the urethra (penis.) This monthly discharge had
been regular from the days of puberty, continuing
about five days, and gradually subsiding and entirely
ceasing until the succeeding period.

The subject was suspected by the faculty of being
\a hermaphrodite, and after the lapse of a year or
two an opportunity was aftbrded for veri^dug the
facts, by the death of the patient.

A post mortem examination revealed the most in-
teresting fact that there was in this individual, a
complete double sex. The uterus was of normal
size and form, the fallopean tubes of usual diameter
and length, admitting the introduction of a small
probe to the ovaries which were of natural size and
structure ; the fimbria was natural, the os-uteri well
developed, projecting naturally into the vagina ; the
vagina of the average size and structure opening into
the urethra about an inch, perhaps less, from the
neck of the bladder ; there being no external signs
of a vaginal opening or vulva ; the testicles were
located about midway upon each side between the
uterus and ovaries in a fold of the broad ligaments^
and were about two-thirds the size of those of
average male adults. A section showed a normal in-
ternal structure, but the microscope did not reveal
the presence of spemiatozoa. The pubes were more

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prominent than in the average male, and well clothed
with the usual hirsute covering. The writer of this
sketch made tAVO plaster cast models of the external
and internal organs, including the bladder and rec-
tum and other parts in situ. Dr. Garlick, now living
at Bedford, Ohio, assisted in the autopsy, and the
specimen with one cast is now or should be in the
museum of the Allopathic College, and the other
cast was deposited in the museum of the Homeo-
pathic College both of Cleveland, Ohio. Prof. H.
P. Gatchell, now living at Highwood, Illinois, and
Prof. Pulte, now living at Cincinnati, Ohio, were
present with the undersigned when the examination
was made, upon which the above sketch is based.

J. BRAmERD, M. D.
W ashington, D. C, January 4, 1878.

[The above was furnished the author with permis-
;sion to publish, by Prof. Brainerd. A number of
other eminent gentlemen in the profession, besides
the professor, and those mentioned by him, were
witnesses of the autopsy. — The Author.]

In closing this chapter, we are not blind to the
fact, that whoever makes an attempt to elucidate
principles not conceded to be such by those ignorant
of the same, and others related to them, may not re-
ceive all the benefit that the author hopes for, in the
immediate future, but the "leaven" of scientific truth

a. Uterus.
h. Bladder.

c. Testicles.

d. Ovaries.

e. Yagina.
/. Scrotum.

g. Fallopian tubes.

h. Penis.

i. Anus.

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cannot fail to be a poiver wlien there shall have been-
time for the important leavening process in the
minds of the millions who err from ignorance of
great principles that sham modesty has prevented
them from having facilities to acquire.

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CHAPTER V.
Morning Sickness in Men.

It is well known that but few enceinte women es-
cape morning sickness in the first part of pregnancy,

that the husbands of such women should suffer in-
stead of them, has always been a m3^stery that has
called forth no further explanation than that "it was
because of sympathy." There have been instances
where the first symptom of the enceinte condition of
a man's wife was his own sickness of the stomach in
less than twentj^-four hours after her conception. So
unvar3nng and so marked has this been, that a rude
joke has come from other men that they could alwa3^s
tell to a day when a certain man would need a doctor
for his wife. This has been a source of so great an-
noyance that men thus effected have kept as much
out of the way of jokers as was possible, even to the
injury of business matters. Jokes in any form in re-
lation to the giving of life and immortality, are be-
neath people with any pretensions to a knowledge of
the grandeur and responsibilit}^ of human antenatal
development.

The sickness of the stomach is owing to the sym-

throuo^h the nine months. But

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patby that exists between the nerves of the utera&-
and the nerves of the stomach. And as man has no
uterus or womb, that he should suffer all the terrible

[nausea, and his wife be perfectly free, is owning not
to an ordinary sympathy, for he could not sympa-
thize before his wife knew her own condition, neither
could he sympathize because of witnessing a deathly
sickness of the stomach in her, since she does not
experience any ; therefore we must delve for a deeper
reason, and in so doing we find that it is the wonder-

/ful tine magnetic intelligence that is communicated

i throuo-h her nerves to his nerves. In a word these
nerves of the organs of sex, are wonderful know-
ing and have a wonderful power of telling be-
fore the brain does, and have power superior to the
organs of speech in communicating such knowledge.

All married people learn of acts and motives of
each other in this wonderful manner, and the freer
'they are from any sexual wa-ong the clearer and truer
will be the knowledge thus gained. Unthinking,
unreasoning people even, often get distinct ideas of

i moral wn^ongs through this nerve power, wdien they
have no other means of knowing, and it matters
not how much such an untrue person may protest
that the true one has no cause for jealousy, the
knowledge thus gained cannot be blown away by a
breath of denial.

Many wives get distinct ideas of the existence of

MORNING SICKNESS IN MEN.

a wron^- of some kind, although they do not always
get distinct ideas of just the character of such wrong.

Men sometimes take the pains of their wives, and
thus relieve them from suffering without any inten-
tion to do so.

It is not always a sympathy that exists between
married people that causes them to take each other's
Ipainsf but a power that is not yet fully understood.
As an evidence of this, a man whose wife was taken
with severe labor pains in the middle of a bitter cold
night, refused to go to a neighbor's for a long time,
telling her she could wait until morning if she tried.
He at last went in an angry mood and left the out-
side door wdde open. His wife said she wished with
all earnestness and pra^^ed that he might have just
as severe pains as she had, that he might understand
her sufferings ; and soon after all her pains left, and
a neighbor woman came to her alone, saying that
her husband had such pains that he had to lie down
in the street until he got over them. These pains
continued at intervals after his return home all through
the night and until her child was born, while her
)( own pains were scarcely felt. We are acquainted
with parties who w^ere themselves cognizant of the
facts in the case just related.

Men who have morning sickness when their wives
are enceinte^ would find that it would soon cease if
they would obey the great law of justice to antenatal,

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posterity, by allowing all the strength of the pros-
pective mother to be given to the child in utero,
\instead of making sexual demands upon her.

This is not always true however, for young men
who run away to another part of the country, or even
to foreign shores, to cure dyspepsia when they have
seduced girls and left them in enceinte conditions, find
that the world is not large enough to get awaj^from
the great law of the language of the nerves that
cannot be controverted.

Every man ought to understand that much of the
suffering of wives from sickness of the stomach, both
w^hile pregnant and at other times, is a result of
copulation.

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CHAPTER VI.
^ Kissing.

The above heacliBg may at a glance surprise the
reader, since the most of people treat the same as of
but little moment in any aspect from which it may
be viewed. It, however assumes an importance
's^ when the fact of venereal disease being contracted by
H kissing, is verified by observation and research. Dr.
!N'aphey, and others eminent in our profession are
firm in this belief. One would be far from an or-
dinary reasoner who did not concede the probability,
since^venereal diseases aifect mucus tissues, not only
in the organs of generation, but those of the nose
and mouth. It matters little how a venereally di-
seased tissue comes in contact with sound tissue of
the same texture, or quality, if the most healthy is
not afi:ected, it is because of an unusual power to re-
sist disease, that very few people possess.

Those eminent in the profession estimate that
twenty-five per cent, of the people are tainted in
! some deo-ree with venereal disease. One of the best
authorities in Cincinnati, Ohio, states that thirty per
cent, of the children born alive, die before one year
of age, and that fully one-fourth are from some ^
s^^ilitic taint.
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This is but a sample of most of our cities, although
some of the larger ones have a still greater propor-
tion. The habit of kissing children is a pernicious
one — for if they are tainted with the loathsome di-
sease it may not make a positive appearance until
about the time of puberty, or still later in years ;
still it is better to avoid danger by such familiarity
On the other hand the tender and susceptible lips of
the young ought not to be kissed by those of mature
years who may be severely affected, although no symp-
toms are visible in the face, and nO' marked ones in
the mucus membrane of the mouth, although some
parts out of sight may be badly ulcerated

But aside from diseases contracted, the habit of
general kissing is a reprehensible one, since it leads
to greater familiarity — there are "holy kisses" from
women that are far from being holy in the estimation
/of men who are so sensual that the least kissing or
[petting of any kind arouses the animal passions.
\ /Married women have said that they never dared to
^ make the least demonstration of affection, as it
aroused their husband's passions so that no matter
how much they loathed sexual relations at the time,
•'k; there was no peace until they yielded to sexual em-
brace, and they very soon learned that the only way
to live in a way to control their own person was to
assume indifference to petting and kissing. If men
were to control such emotions and live as though

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life had some elevated sentiment of affection as well
as of the sexual passion they would find many a
happy home with disagreeable wives. Women often
think as men ouglit to understand them that what
often is the result of ignorance, is a total indifference
to their wife's desires, so long as their own inclina-
tions are gratified.

Parents wrong their children by urging or com-
manding them to kiss people that are disagreeable ta
them. Men make their children and wives kiss
corpses at funerals of near relatives when they loath
the idea, but dare not refuse to obey when told to do*
so in a low and meaning tone. Kissing at meeting
and parting in this country is so common that but
few have considered the matter until they have
lived half a life time and observed that a great part
of it is only enditi^ed by one of the party, and is often
disgusting, although from fear of offending, the-
real emotions are suppressed. Whoever by reason
of superior strength would kiss another without the
perfect assent of the second party, would, if under
no fear of the consequences, take the basest advan-
tages of womanhood, disregarding the most sacred of
individual rights of person, under all circumstances
in life.

And whoever ignores such individual rights sets
himself down as a tyrant, whether the ruling mo-
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•selfishness. It is a crime upon the physical but a
still greater one upon the soul, that must ever call
forth hatred that may not be loud, but a silent hatred
that is deep and bitter.

The old years of a man's life who does not ac-
knowledge a wife's right of perfect control of her
person under all circumstances, will be a loveless
one, if not a wretched one ; unblessed by the pure
kiss of affection.

HYMEXS.

CHAPTER YIL
Hymens.

The idea about hymens that once broken are
certain signs of maidenly purity, originated with
brutal men, who assumed the marital privileges as
rigliis^ and instead of treating wives tenderly and
gaining their confidence, and waiting until their-
own nature called for the sexual relation througk
^- their love of motherhood, and thus lubricatino; the-
vagina, and relaxing the muscular tissues at the en-
trance, have by brute force accomplished copulation^
breaking blood vessels at the entrance of the vagina^,
and so injuring the uterus by such savageness that
the whole ^\oman nature so revolts that the menses^
flow as a temporary protection to her.

Precisely the same result follows at all periods ia
woman's life, even after she has borne children. In-

\ deed, the vagina has been knoAvn to contract more
I tightly but an hour after repeated copulative acts,
\than it was before the lirst act after marriage. The
whole system seems to spend its power to j^rotect
\ against such excess, in its eflbrts to efi:ectually close
^ \the vagina, to prevent more injury to the whole nerv<^
system, that is sure to follow, no matter how willmg-
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to men's demands, for the sake of an expected re-
taining of his affection, or for other reasons.

This condition has confounded men, and made
them think that women were designedly unaccom-
modating not only, but that they could assume the
xole of the virgin at will, and seem never to have
■copulated, and so they lose confidence in their having
been maidenly pure.

The virgin wife who is compelled to yield to copu-
lation before she is herself prepared for it by the
j natural lubrications, has her nerves so shocked that
j it frequently occurs that months pass before she is
' Ideally willing to yield to the relation. There are
instances where the relation is never desired, because
'Of a disgust that women feel for husbands that never
ract as though wives had any rights but to yield to
/their demands, and so the relation instead of being
l:a tender binding one, is an irritating, separating
[one. that fearfully injures his whole nervous sys-
tem as well as hers. For a women cannot have an
impaired nervous organization without a husband
suffering in his nerves by his having contact with
her.

His ignorance of the cause of many ailments that
result from such relationships under such conditions,
weigh nothing in preventing the effects.

Children are often born of mothers who have never
liad one sexual relation that has been other than a

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matter of toleration. The ovum when in a proper
€ondition, meeting the matured spermatozoa the
work of conception must result when such germ
and sperm cells meet. So great is the affinity of an
ovum and a spermatozoa that conception has taken
place with whatever of the hymen there ever was
in a perfect condition, as the following will show.
A couple married under circumstances not favorable
to having children for a number of years. 'No effort
was made to have perfect copulation, and not until
there were unmistakable signs of accouchment, would
either of the couple believe an enceinte condition
possible. The attending accoucher upon examination
declared that the most perfect hymen existed, and
the woman must certainly be afflicted with a tumor
that was about to be expelled, with probably fatal
results from hemorrhage. To the surprise of all a fine
child was born after a few hours labor, thus greatly
muddling the brains of those who are so sure of
maidenly purit}^ by physical signs. Few people
ever expect to keep girls pure through other motives
than fear of results and exposures ; but those who have
no higher and nobler restraints, are unfitted for
desirable motherhood, reliable wives, and the per-
manency of the friendship of pure marriage.

Men with their greater physical strength, ought
to despise the very idea of taking any advantage
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nature, and so much less about the strength of men
excited by tobacco, and stimulating drinks. A man
is less guilty who commits a murder, than the one
who takes from woman a consciousness of her
womanly purity. And he had better be dead than
to carry on his soul the marks of his ow^x degreda-
tion, to say nothing of the remembrance of the de-
gredation of his victims. This will be more fully
explained in the chapter on the language of the
nerves, where the matter of the evidence of a well
marked hymen, {ivhich very seldom exists^) will sink
almost into nothingness when compared with the
deep metaphysical truths that are of immensurable
importance.

It has been the experience of girls that have been
married before the age of puberty or very soon aftei\
^ that the sexual relation before the body was matured,
^^was at first exceedingly painful, and such are firm
believers in the humbug hymen theory, which as
we have stated is very seldom found to exist, although
the story is generally believed by both men and
women, and is kept up to frighten girls out of vice —
with w^hat success, the terrible condition of society
attests, and ever will attest until better motives for
chastity are taught.

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CHAPTER Ylir.

Seminal Weakness.

So common are the ideas that it is "seminal weak-
ness for men to discharge semen w^hen not cohabiting-
w^ith women/"' that some really honest doctors have
gone so far as to advertise themselves to ''cnre" the
same. Others have made it a means to make money ^.
when they w^ell know that the occasional emissions
of that character is^ bnt an effort of nature to re*
>^lieve itself of a surplus, just as the throwing off of
the ovum in woman every month, is an effort of
nature to rid the system of the ovum or eggs that
s^, are matured and unused. If men are in healthy
conditions this will occur every month, to corre- ^
spond wdth the emitting of the ovum in women.
Whenever it occurs oftener in either men or w^omen,
it is either because of weakness or of unnatural ex-
citement. Tobacco, all kinds of intoxicating drinks^
highly seasoned food, the^vulgarity of women's \
fashionable dress that is ever appealing to the basest /
passions, cause a drain upon the system that is
undermining the constitutions of the masses. This
^ must continue so long as women follow the ever
\ changing fashions, which are studies to excite men's^

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to be attracted by one &tyle ; as soon as its exciting
novelty begins to wane, another fashionable means of
\ keeping up this passional excitement is presented.
'Not alone are the lookers on these fashions injured
in mind, body and morals, but the women themselves
are fearful sufferers in all these regards. So inti-
mately are all the interests of life blended, that
.neither sex can suffer alone.

About an equal number of men and women are
matured and the unperverted laws of nature are such
that men and women res^Dond to them equally when
living properl}^ IS'ature is fall of order ; and the
ovum and the spermatozoa must be thrown off to
.make room for the constantly maturing. From the
age'oT"puberty, until the change in life, the process
•of throwing off the ovum is one essential to health;
these pass from the ovaries through the fallopian
tubes to the uterus. It is important that the sperm-
atozoa in men should pass off also, protected by
albumen as they pass through the many feet of tub-
ing in the testes. Although all semen that is largely
composed of albumen does not contain spermatozoa, it
^is a fact that where there is no albuminous discharges,
^ spermatozoa is never found, and such men can not be-
<3ome fathers, although they may be in good health.
Instances have been cited to disprove this, but close
investigation has proved the correctness of our
poosition.

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We know an instance of this kind. A woman
who had been a mother when her first husband was
living, married a man who was very anxious to have
children. In consulting us she stated the difii'erence
in the seminal fluid of the two husbands, and when
we informed her that he could not be a father, she
expressed regrets on her husband's account. In less
than a year we attended her in confinement. In
about two years after she became a mother again.
Another physician acknowledged the parentage and
removed from the city where they resided. Several
persons saw through the intrigues and kept watch
of the parties, and knew of the doctor visiting the
eity in question in a clandestine manner, without her
husband knowing of the .same. Precisely nine

' months thereafter she became a mother again. The
woman's husband knew nothing; of the doctor's last
visit, and was reconciled to the idea that he was the

\ father of all three of the children.

Many cases of real seminal weakness are caused
by masturbation, excessive copulation, and by shav-
ing the beard. This last cause is a cause of mastur-
bation, for the whole nerve system is excited by the

^shaving process. If the face was not shaved at all,
the i3eard would not be so thick and harsh.

Men very readily understand the aftect on the

^ nerves of the eyes when a dull razor is used on the

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face, and thej will learn to trace effect to cause and
[understand the irritability of the organs of sex.
The face is a tell-tale of the life, and the time is
not distant when all who look may read for them-
selves and clearly understand what men have seminal
w^eakness, and what are the causes, for every vice and
every outrage on the great laws of existence have
their own peculiar evidences.

Beautiful young women will not always marry
seminally weak men to save such men's lives, for they
will understand that their suitors have so destroyed
their re-productive power, that they may not be able
to ever become fathers for their children, and if they
do, such children will be miserable specimens of
humanity, both in body and mind.

It is a lamentable fact that there are but few young
■men to be found that are fit for majriage.

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CHAPTER IX.
Barrenness.

There must be some defect in the mind of a human
heing that does not desire children. The unperver-
ted sexual desires are filled with a love of posterity,
and should not be exercised except for procreation.

It has been said that "the love of posterity is
greater in woman than in man," but this must for-
ever be an open question, since man's brain is gener-
ally so poisoned with tobacco and intoxicating drinks,
that we know but little about what he would be
without having indulged in the same. But there is
a stronger reason why men do not love their child-
ren as devotedly as women aside from the mother
sulfering. A sexually promiscuous life destroys the
finest and tenderest loves of life to a great extent.
The man or woman whoever debases the procreating
functions b}" sexual variety or change, or Avho in-
dulges for selfish reasons without desires for posterity,
/lose the power to become the parents of children of
\the finest minds, bodies and morals. And although
they may not be idiotic, or may not be born her-
maphrodites, yet they are liable to be enfeebled in
body, dull of perception, or without the power to
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barren. All stages and modifications of evils result
from an abuse, or an improper use of the organs of
generation. They, should not be used at all until
mind and body are mature, and then there will be
a strength of character, strength of body and mind
imparted to posterity that will be superior to both
parents.

If bodies are mature before those in temperate
climates are between 25 and 30 years old, the minds
are not, it matters not how^ well they are educated,,
and no person should marry until the mind is mature
as well as the body. Time alone can bring maturity
that enables parents to give to children constitutions
and capabilities of mind that are superior to them-
selves, or even equals w^ith them. It is true that sup-
erior advantages of children to-day leads some to
think that their children are an improvement on
themselves, but had they had the same advantages
in their youth, they would now readily see that the
contrast is very great regarding the deterioration of
their posterity.

The love of offspring implanted in the soul of those
unable to become mothers, has caused many barren wo-
men to apply to us for a remedy, and to explain the
cause of barrenness. We have seldom seen deeper
Xlooks of despair on woman's face than when she re-
peated the assertion that "there is no hope in the-
case." Men do not understand the depth of woman's-

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love of posterity. So great is this that women of
all ages, from before the age of puberty, until long
after the ordinary possible age to bear children,

>-dream of having infants of their own in their arms,
and sometimes of twj.ns and triplets. Few, if any
men have any idea of the love of motherhood that
is expressed by girls to each other, and many an.

> illegitimate child that is forced from the mother's
presence, for fear of publicity, would be kept regard-
less of consequences to her, if she were allowed to
exercise her maternal rights. A most marked and,
deepl}^ affecting instance of the love of children oc-
curred in the central part of 'New York. A woman
of nearly thirty years of age became a mother who*
was never married. The father left the country be-
fore the birth. A few years after she became the-
mother of another child, at which occurrence all
sympathy for her was extinct. "When the children
were about half o-rown she was summoned as a wit-
ness on some neighborhood difference, and the oppos-
ing counsel questioned her in regard to her two ille-
gitimate children of different fathers for the purpose
of damaging her evidence because of her character.

She replied that the love of the father in the
hopes of having his offspring was so great that she
pvas ready to bear all disgrace for the sake of having

^ his child that she loved so dearly, that she made an.

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\ /opportunity to have another child, so as to have one
^ ! to love in her old age if the first should die.

The judge on the bench asked her why she did

\ /not marry if she thought so much of children? She
I replied that she had never had a chance to marry.
There was not a dry eye in the court, when they
understood that woman's love of motherhood, and
; the judge in open court asked her if she would mar-
ry him. And at the close of the court they were
accordingly married. Veryjfew women are under-
\^ / stood by men, only as some peculiar circumstances
^ (bring their real characters to light. This results
from a false idea of modesty that men make for
women to abide by, and then in their egotism treat
women as though they knew all about them, better
than they know themselves. How much men lose
in the great work of souland body elevation, men
will never know until women make their own stand-
ard of what is modest and right. The one is in reality
synonymous with the other. Ignorance and false

\, modesty always accompany each other. The motive
and not the words or acts are truly modest or other-
wise. Whatever any one person in the w^orld ought
to know about the human body or its posssibilities,
■organic or functional, all should know, for knowledge
that is gained correctly is but the birthright of hu-
manity. At this point we make an assertion that was
never made before, that every woman, as well as every

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man, has a right to know before marriage whether
that life partner is capable of parentage. Science has
been so developed that this can be ascertained to a
certainty, and thus prevent all of the disappoint-
ments and separations resulting from barrenness.
There are many causes in both men and women.
There are instances of barrenness, where the only
cause has been the harshness of husbands on wedding
nights. The nerves of the vagina were so shocked
and partially paralyzed that they never recovered the
magnetic power sufficiently to foster the life of the
spermatozoa until the conception was perfected.

We have discovered that some women have such
a cartilagineous osuteri, that the spermatozoa lose all
of their vitality before they are able to pass over
such an unmagnetic place before arriving into the
body of the uterus where the minute placenta is
formed, with the ovum in it, awaiting the sperm-
atozoon. Our microscopic experiments have proved
that one or more minute placentae are formed every
month in the uterus while a woman is able to bear
children. It is throuerhthe fine ma2;netic attraction
of the spermatozoa for the ovum that bring the
former, or sperm, cells, to unite with the latter, or
germ cells. How great this attraction is will be
seen in another chapter, where a case is related of
conception without perfect copulation.

Another cause of barrenness, is because of an
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elongation of tlie labia of the osnteri, making the
osuteri so gross and unmagnetic, that the sperma-
tozoa cannot pass into the nterus because of the re-
]3ulsion. Another cause is that the osuteri is so
small that the menstrual fluid is forced throuo^h this
orifice causing great pain and consequent inflamma-
tion, rendering conception impossible, because of the
heat of the inflammation so soon destroying the sper-
.matozoa. Another reason is, that the expulsive pains
so injure or destroj^the minute placenta, that when the
inflammation subsides there is no ovum or placenta
in the uterus to receive the spermatozoa. Another
reason is that the albuminous fluid given off every
month to fill the neck of the uterus as soon as con-
ception takes place is of such a vitiated character that
the neck of the uterus cannot retain it. Although
this last substance could be contained in less than
half of a small thimble, it glues up the neck of
the uterus to prevent air and other influences from
interfering with the great and beautiful laws of
foetal developement.

Barrenness is sometimes caused from temperament-
al inharmonies, but wrongs are every day to be met
where the parents had better have been barren than
to have united such temperaments, that the pov/er
of longevity was lost in the children, or the general
make-up was defective.

Most of the cases of barrenness in women, yield

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to medical or surgical treatment. But there are
cases in men, that cannot be remedied, and it is a
crime for such men to marrj without the intended
wife fully understanding that he is powerless to be-
come a father. 'No man or woman whose respect
is worth having, but would thank another for hon-
estly revealing their true condition.

The temperamental conditions have a wonderful
eftect on barrenness in old age, as is seen in the fol-
lowing cases.

The noble Italian lady, Dianora Frescobalh, was
the mother of fifty -two children.

There is a monument in Aberconway Church, to
^Nicholas Hooper, who was a forty-Hrst child, and
the father of twenty-seven children by one wife.

The wife of the coachman of Charles X. became
enceinte Avhen sixty-five years old.

Maj;ga£etjCribsowne, who died in 1763 at the age
of 108 years, married her third husband at njnet)^-four\
years of age, who was at the time of marriage 105 j
years old. They had three children, all of ordinary I
height, but they never had any teeth ; their hair
was gray, complexions withered, and had decre^itj
step^.

In self-imposed barrenness, married men object to
having children because of their trouble when young.
Some from fear that they may be deformed, or that
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selves. Some because of a want of an understanding
that maternity does not injure women in any sense
as wives if all the laws are observed. Some because
they are too penurious to pay the extra expenses that
their wives would demand, or their own pride sug-
gest. Some because they do not wish to have their
wives ever in a condition where their own demands
cannot be supplied, and where their wive's whole
attention cannot be paid to them, for those who
practice variety before marriage are tyrants in mar-
riage, and generally continue their promiscuity to a
greater or less extent, hoping by putting on a kind
•of rigidity of manners that they will convince their
wives of their correctness of morals.

We would not do an injustice to men, for the same
things holds true regarding women who practice a
variety life, as is seen in some tribes of East India
and in Africa, where the women have plurality of
husbands.

The love of posterity is never as intense with ya-
f riety people as with those w^ho have always lived
true lives.

The motives that call forth the love of posterity
are many. The first and general one is that ever
grasping to attain all that is within the possibilities
of mortals, and to be considered equals with the rest
of mankind.

Where honors and titles are inherited there is a

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desire to perpetuate that style of greatness, and it
sometimes occurs that the most cruel of measures are-
resorted to for the accomplishment of such a purpose.
The beautiful Josephine will ever be cited as an in-
stance of this character.

A prevalent motive everywhere, is to have some-
one to care for them in old age, and no matter what
are the examples of ingratitude of many children,
a hope that theirs will be all they desire is ever in-
dulged.

Few men can ever understand, and perhaps no
man can, how deep is the love of posterity for the
purpose of having something pure to pet and place
their affections upon as the predominant motive,,
although they have all the other motives that men
have also.

We have known cases where the maternal love
was so great with women whose husbands were post-
^ poning for years their wives desired maternity, that
they have been led to study regarding the fulfillment
y)f such desire from another source.

We know of cases where widowers with children
^ when looking for second wives, have protested
"^j against marrying women w^ho were young enough
\o bear children.
V Some young women have distinctly told such men
xthat they desired children, and thus defeated the
contemplated marriages.

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There are men who become aiigry every time their
wives become pregnant, and treat them as though
they had committed some crime, and by such treat-
ment compel them to actually commit a crime in
producing abortion.

We know of a case where the maternal love was
so great, that a wife was determined to have a sec-
ond child, fearing that the first (about eight years
of ago) might die and leave her childless. She suc-

[ceeded in her plans for conception after a second
month's trial, in taking the semen from the sheet and
introducing it into the vagina. Her child was a
w^ell developed boy, with the exception of having
part of the cranial bones entirely absent. It lived
but a few hours.

Good men cannot form a clear conception of the
fbase motives of some men regarding the tenderest
^interests of life, and they hurry their daughters into
marriage with any sort of a man that has wealth or
position, never thinking whether the man may be
able to become a father of grand specimens of hu-
manity or not, or whether his daughter may not be
barren and she be an imposition on her husband.
Deception on one side is as reprehensible as on the
other.

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CHAPTER X.
The Social Evil.

Eev. Dr. Muhlenberg in one of his sermons, gave
ii withering reproof to fashionable woman church
goers as follows : — "One of the great inducements to
-^women to ply an immoral trade, is a fondness for
/ fiiierj, copying their sisters in higher life, who, by
{ their example of vain show in dress, have more to
answer for in the matter than they suspect.''

E'othing could be truer, and when once in the
Ivortex, they find they can live easier and more idly)
jthan in other ways, not knowing that they will soon
Uose the mental power to concentrate their energies \ >
on anything that would be honorably supporting,^*} i/
■unless endowed with an unusual amount of will
power. They do not understand that there is any-,
thing to be thought of in the case but a loss of the ^
respect of people, an avoidance of child-bearing, and
precautionarj^ measures against venereal diseases. /

They do not know that their i^assions will not al-'^ ^
ways hold out, and they know nothing about the '
fearful drain upon their nerve forces.

But one of the great motives in yielding in the
tirsjb place, with the masses of unfortunate women, is /
\ a 5^£i5;^ty^'that is intensified with the inducements, ^

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and with the natural instincts of everything that
has life.

We have failed to find any men speakers or writers
that understand this, for the most abandoned will
not acknowledge this to men who undertake to peer
into their lives.

Men cannot deal with this question properly, be-
cause they do^oLnnderstand women. The best of
writers on this subject are full of false theories, and
false conclusions that the mass of women who read
the same assent to, because it is considered some-
thing quite creditable among women generally to
r speak of the sexual relation as simply a marital ac-
quiesance on the part of women who are married,
and of great passions on the part of any woman who
is having such relations out of marriage.

The best of men writers, whose researches on
these subjects have been great, will assert with all
the assurance possible, that "women's passions are
not as strong as men's." And they will bring what
they term proof to bear them out in such assertions,
but nothing could possibly be more radically false.
On the other hand the sexual passions of women are
stronger than those of men, but the early training
of self control, make the habits of continence so
strong that men mistake self control for weak pas^
sional natures.

There are times in^very month of menstruating

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women that only the^^oral sentiments save them,\)^
this is a perversion of the love of posterity that a )
combination of causes have produced.

When the minute placenta is formed in the uterus
and the ovum awaiting the arrival of the sperm
cells to unite with the germ cells, there cannot be
a louder call than is made with the nerves of the^ /
vagina, all intensified with menstrual flow that every !
month gives new power to the vaginal nerves. The
very formation of woman ought to teach a scientific
man that her excitement as a natural consequence ^
would be far more intense than his. This is seen
in the confessions of women whose husbands or
lovers were using precautionary measures to prevent
conception, and were not permitted to do so. It is
seen in abundant cases where women marry men ^
far beneath them, and some widows resort to allN
sorts of measures to gratify the sexual passions, and )
retain the respect of people by a chaste appearance /
if they can but gratify at all hazards.

The greater strength of women's passions as com-
pared with men is seen in their willingness to take
all risks of passing through the agonies of abortions-
that are often greater than those of full grown child
bearing^.

AVe must take human nature as we find it, and
then try to make the world better by lessons of his-
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Social evils are mi_regulated passions as well as
/perverted passions, and the want of local bathing,
the use of condiments and of stimulants are fruitful
causes of such perversion. The unhygienic style of
V woman's dress that compresses a portion of the
body, and by its very length causes displacements of
■the uterine organs, and defective circulation of the
blood through them and contiguous organs, keeps up
"^an excited condition. It is estimated that seven
f tons of blood pass through the heart every twenty-
four hours, and in doing this the blood is unnaturally
^ t heated in the organs of generation by the compression
\ of the clothing around the waist and loins.

All the theories of shoulder straps and bodies on
petticoats relieving this condition are very plausible
in the minds of men physicians who never can know
'by actual experience, to how limited an extent is
this true.

'^'The ordinar}^ length of women's clothing, arranged
as best it can be, is detrimental to the organs of gen--
■eration and much of the false reasoning on the sub-
ject has resulted from the ignorance of men doctors,
who could not fully understand the subject because
they are men. 'Not until women physicians experi-
mented and traced cause to effect and effect to cause,
was this subject understood.

The proper arrangement of woman's clothing (the
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-any hope of mastering the so.nal evil r|iiestion. For ^
/•Avhile woman is kept unnaturally exeiteiL or in al ^
I condition to be easily excited sexually, lyv the ordi-1
I nary styles of her clothing, the social evil (|UL-stion
will be one about which the brain will muddled,
and all elforts to reform by moral stiasion. prayers,
kindness, harshness, midnight meetings, houses of
reformation, and other conceivable plans will bring-
but meagre and discouraging results.

The same effect of unc'^ually arrangtHl dress on
the nerves of sensatiou, with the nervo-Autal iiuiil is
true, injuring women a thousand-foLl worse than it
as possible to injure men, l:)ecau:?e men have not the
internal organs of geueration that women have.
Both men and Aviunen must understand the chap-
ters on The Language of the Xerves. and Pure ^Ian-
hood, the necessity for daily local bathing and the
avoidance of all stimulants, before the great problem
of the cure of social evils are reached. And then
both men and women must cultivate themselves in
accordance with the highest ideas of both fatherhood
and motherhood.
» "We are rejoieed to have an opportunity to i^uote
Jules Favreof the Corps^ Legislative: He says '-The
only way to solve the social evil problem, is to ele-
vate the standard, of morals for men to that of the
purest women."' That is most excellent, but he nor
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or they would see that no one single effort or a single
measure could do away, with the monstrous evil.

There is so much to be said upon this subject, that
full elaboration would be impossible in our limited
space.

We must at this time enter our protest against the
course of so-called " scientific men," who advise young
men to "cohabit with women to improve their health."
It would be no more monstrous to give such advice
to young women than it is to young men.

The organs of generation are for the specific pur-
pose of procreating, and if not used for that purpose ;
the natural means of ridding the system of an unusual
accumulation is taken by nature.

While marriage is favorable to health and longev-
ity, because of many stimulants to exertion such as
children and the accumulative interests consequent
on marriage, we have abundant proof of the general
good health of body and mind of those who have
never married. Among such are the names of the
following: well known women :

Dr. Harriet K. Hunt, the first educated woman
practitioner in America; Charlotte Cushman, the
American theatrical star; Rosa Bonheur, France's
greatest artist in animal painting ; Florence i^ight-
ingale, England's most prominent army nurse, and
Miss Burdet Coots, the great English philanthropist.
The lives of these women prove what can be achiev^ed

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hj using the powers in other directions than those
of sex merely, and letting the reproductive organs rest
from excitement of indulgence. Woman individu-
ally, is the only one capahle of judging when, how
often, if ever, she is to take measures to become a
mother as all men are free to decide what is of im-
measurable importance to them.

Some of the greatest men that have ever lived
have chosen never to marry, and have distinguished
themselves by the use of brain power, instead of
■draining their systems through their organs of sex. J
Among these are Sir Isaac IN'ewton ; Gibson, the sculp-
tor ; Pitt, the statesman ; Baron Von Humbolt, the
scientist ; Kent, the metaphysician, and Jacob
Gremm, the philologist.

Unless there is a stay to the social evil, the time
is not distant when the world will sink back into
barbarism.

The few who put on their virtuous cloaks to shield
themselves from a discussion of these subjects, pre-
ferring rather to ignore evils in their own circles and
let the rest of the world take care of itself, are of
but little use to us or the rest of humanity. Ignor-
ing the evils of life is not the philosophical way of
treating them. They should be discussed by the
deepest metaphysicians, and all should be taught
their existence and consequences, as the safe method
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Tliiey icill learn, it is impossible to prevent tlieir
gaining knowledge from the basest standpoints, and
through the most vulgar kind of language. How
much better to be taught correctly and fill the minds
with correct ideas and the true uses of all thino-s.
^Science knows no false modesty. Much of the social
evil is far beyond the sphere of legislation, but can
be reached and the wrongs thereof righted through
knowledge in youth.

The effects of tobacco on the organs of generation
are well known to the profession as excitants, and
also as having an effect on the early decay of the
i generative functions of both sons and daughters, as-
^ well as parents. Dr. E. E. Phelps, Professor for many
years in Dartmouth College ; Dr. ^N'apheys, the medi-
cal author ; Dr. Pidduck of London ; Dr. C. McDougal,
Dr. Wells, Dr. Trail, Drs. Fowler, Dr. Gardner, Dr.
Smith, and a host of others learned in the profession,,
are convinced of the social evils that are aggravated by
the noxious weed — tobacco.

S. Weir Mitchell, M. D.. of the Philadelphia In-
firmary for I^ervous Diseases, in a recent paper, says
/that "tobacco is of all causes the most potent in giv-
ving rise to general nervousness."

We hope the Doctor will give a learned essay upon,
the effects on wives of men who use the noxious
poison by portraying at length how the lungs, the
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surrouncliDO' the iiretlira, gather up and throw out
the poisons that are introduced into the system.

The socM^ejvjLamong the^ married prevails to an
extent that is appalling. The very influence of sex-
ual variety that the husband carries to his wife
through his neryes in his sexual relation Avith her,-
impresses her with the idea of indulging in a variety
also^and so the pure girl that he married with no
other thought hut of faithfulness to him, his own /
course of life has changed, and made her nnadde to ^
resist a variety life. Her husband seduces young
girls, and brings to her in his sexual relations with
her the sinr'd of seduction of the innocent, and so she
reasons that if there is something desirable in initi- ^
ating young girls in sexual relations, that it must be \ ^
equally so to initiate young men and so she pursues v
her course.

And just so long as men are unfaithful to them-
selves before or after marriage, will young men be j
seduced by married women. Such cases are increas- /
ing at a fearful rate, and will continue to increase
until men who are stronger physically than women
will refrain from degrading themselves by taking on'

Mthe vile magnetism of illicit intercourse that once
imbibed is ever after a part of the man, as much as
his hand, and is a part of the inheritance of poster^
ity.

Popular ignorance on these points will not atfect

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the great laws, and while we have been able to make
some discoveries and application of laws and princi-
ples of the science of life, we should consider silence
upon such important matters a crime of great
magnitude, when we contemplate that millions are
living, and billions unborn that are to be benefited
by such knowledge.

Both men and women suffer aside from the usual
diseases of body and mind, who are actors in the
social evil wrongs. Among the same are two that
are fearful results, the prolapsus of the scrotum in
man, and the terrible hemorrhages of the uterus in
the change of woman's life. There are no reprieves
from the prison of the soul. And no remitting of
the penalties of outraged nature.

Even in animal life there are marked instances of
the great law. Somewhere there is a rebellion against
such wrongs in the shape of a mare having but two
legs ; a heifer having an extra foot growing from
the shoulder ; a calf having six feet, etc.

The magnetic power is the life, and to illustrate
how poisoning is the variety touch, we relate the
instances of the deaths of two of Barnum's choicest
ponies.

A woman so degarded that not even the lowest
attaches of Barnum's shows would associate with
her sexually, was hired by them for a pony^ The
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touched, he fell back dead. The same experiment
was tried with another woman and another pony by,
these men, with the same result. These women
submitted to the degradation to get their bread, and
for the pittance paid, Barnum lost his valuable
ponies.

"Will men never see that in a thousand ways their
oppression of women are visited upon themselves ?
The above case is but a financial retribution while
the following is a physical one oi^ poignant character:

One of the young queens in the South Sea Islands
married a prince who died while in the first act of
coition. In due course of time the next brother
married her with the same result. The third brother,
according to the custom of every brother marry-
ing his brother's widow until an heir was born, re-
luctantly married her, knowing that both his brothers
had died from the eftect of having the head of the
penis entirely severed. He was cautious, and de-
clared she had a little knife concealed inside of her,
and as his mutilated condition was testimony in the
case, she was killed and examination revealed the
attachment to the uterus of three small bones with
sharp edges.

^^'ature has strange freaks in her efforts to enforce
her law of the rights of woman to her own person ;
we say freaks, because we have not yet delved into
the m^^steries that envelop unusual cases.
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There are instances where the daughters born from
marital rape, have inherited such a power of vagina
/resistance, that the coition grasp in orgasm has
I caused a man the most excruciating pain. There are
two instances in this city that are known to be such.
One is a case of a woman in good social position, who
/has all the fierceness of passion of the father and the
[resistance of the mother, n^iaking her just the char-
\acter she is.

'No man ever has but one sexual relation with her
and considers himself fortunate to be able to escape
alive. It is utterly beyond her power to control in
any degree the muscular tissues of the vagina, and
the bruised condition of her victims are occasions of
^apologies and regrets.

The woman has property, and when she fails to
'win a victim through ordinary arts, she pays a con-
[ sideration for whoever she can get, but no amount of
\money can make a second purchase.

The very atmosphere is filled with wrongs of man
to woman of more or less aggravated character.
Women are oppressed because they will not sink into
the immoralities of the age, or even sanction the
same. Woman is denied legislative justice because
she has so much logic that she cannot see any rea-
son why she has not as good a right to help to make
and to administer laws that govern both men and
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as time saving^ health saving, strength saving and rnoney
saving manner as man.

One class of men oi)press because woman lives up
to the purest ideas of the grandeur of earth life,
while another class oppress woman because she goes
to the extreme of immoralities. The question might
arise which class of men are the better of the two ?

An eye witness informed us of an instance of the
latter that all men ought to know of. Sixteen meii\
in one evening c^ohabited with one woman, and after ^
the same, without one of them having given the de-
graded woman a penny, took a large dog and, with
one accord, compelled her to submit to another deg- ^
radation ! ! 1 AYhile grand and cultured women are
oppressed in high places, the very atmosphere is filled
with oppression that is meted out to otlier women by
men of lower grades, in ways that V'Ould shock the
former oppressors. Thus the sentiment of oppres-
sion carries with it no safety valve. The veiy senti-
ment preached, lived or even cherished will return to
your daughters through men of degraded habits, to
sting like a viper, although you may have sung them
as a bird before your reverses of station and of for-
tune.

It is a hard matter to decide where the greater
crime exists, whether in debasing a pure and true/
soul with brilliant attainments, or taking advantage
of one with little mind and meager attainmentsy

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Who shall decide which injures society the more?
ISTo canvas is of sufficient dimensions to delineate
the features of these cases. But in the great future
the canvases will be unrolled to view. Let imagi-
nation paint its own picture to every man according
to life. One such will be related here :

A young girl is the victim of a promising young
man. He deserts her and she sinks lower and lower
until she is a filthy blear-eyed monster, sinking out
of life in a below stairs den, from which she is boxed
oip and sent to ''potter's field." The brilliant young
man has so covered his various conquests that he has
been called respectable all through life. He has
wealth, position, a fine family, and finally dies in his
palatial residence, and is conveyed to the family
vault with public honors. Voice and press are loud
in extolling his virtues, while he is taking up his
quarters in the realm of the disembodied.

The first object that meets his eyes, grasps
his hand, and speaks his name, is the degraded
woman that is now one of the component parts of
^ his "Hell." He starts in consternation^ he tries to
speak a begone^ he attempts to wrench his hand from
her grasp, but finds himself powerless. He then
takes a retrospective view of his life and goes into
all the labyrinths of labyrinths through which his
victim and victim of victims has passed, and with
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liome to him the dreadful realization that he has-
been the grand mogul of the pure creatures destiny
before him. The company he sought in earth life,
and robbed of their magnetic power, rush to him in
spirit life, with all the bad magnetism that are far
worse than a literal fire and brimstone.

A son of a wealthy and prominent gentleman in a
northern city, who was boarding at a fashionable
hotel, took a woman in bed with his wife who had
been a friend of hers. The shock of misplaced confi-
dence in both of them was so great, (and what of
abuse was meted to the wife in other regards we
may never know,) that wife became so demented that
she almost entirely lost the power of speech, and
scarcely knows enough to feed herself. This occur-
red several years since, and at last accounts she w^as
still living and in the same condition.

How the mental and physical could be so afiected,
just what process of action on both through the nerves
was the cause of the result, is a study for the meta-
physician, and until it shall be solved, will come
under the head of the "unknowables."

As the lower classes are so badly conditioned,
we can only hope to right the wrongs of the social
evils, through science in the better classes of society
as regards wealth and general culture, ^^ot better
as regards morals, save that there is less of the posi-

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tive brutality towards woman, and more of wooing
into evil.

A case occurred in Washino-ton as follows : A ofen-
tleraan who was addressing a lady with the avowed
intention of marriage, did, bj positive force, succeed
in violating her person. He married her soon after.
IBut he so shocked her sense of the proprieties of
life, the selfhood of woman and rights of woman to
lier own person, he so disgusted her with the sexual
relation that she told him before marriage that she
should never be party to such a relation again.

They have been living together for near twenty
years, and no iniiuence could be brought to bear to
induce her to change her resolution. She has been

/ uniformly kind and attentive to him except when the

I sexual relation has been suggested in any way, and
then she has been endowed with superhuman power
of resistance. He was not out of the borders of civili-
zation and could not do as one of the Indian Agents
did in Wisconsin a few years since, which was to
hire two men to hold a squaw whom he had repeat -

\^ edly failed to violate alone. How long will it take to
prove to white squaws that "men are women's protec-

/tors," and to dark squaws that the whites are a noble
.race sent by a great government to "civilize them."

How many prayers will it take to wash the soul of
social evils gathered up in earth life ? With many

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gathered up in ignorance of their ■permanence^ but
gathered for eternity.

We have said many times in our lectures that
much of the faihire to do justly to woman was more
£1 misfortune than a fault, because man does not un-
derstand woman, and never will while there is one
iota of barbarism relics over woman, preventing
the largest freedom in thought and act. Imperfect
laws must ever exist until there is perfect freedom
for all the governed to make full statements regard-
ing cause and effect in thousands of matters that
men have no conception of, and never have even
thought deeply enough to think it possible that there
is a side beyond man's possible comprehension.

Even as late as 1787, the subject was discussed re-
garding the complete evidence of rape.

The thought never occured to men judges or juries
that a child or even a matured girl was ignorant \
of what an '^emission" was, that she must swear to /
in order to prove rape.

The common law would not take penetration as
sufficient evidence of rape, until the eyes of men
were opened by the testimony of a woman who had
borne several children that "she could not swear that /
emission had ever taken place."

(Forcible penetration whether in marriage rapes \
or in any other, at any time, more frequently than )
otherwise, causes more or less hemorrhage. In any^

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/ , V case the vagina seeks to protect itself from the injury
of friction by lubricating with the natural secretions^
if possible, but if not able to do so then it is assisted

^2- , \ by help from the uterus in an ill-timed menstrual
discharge.)

There were no women on the dignified benches nor
in the ignorant boxes, for the age was not blessed by
Justice Esther Morriss, Lawyer Belva A. Lockwood,
Jurymen Mrs. Amelia B. Post and Mrs. Editor Hay-
ford, and a Law Journalist, Mira Bradwell.

Forced contact of the genital organs should be
met with the severest penalities of rape, since such
an act is but premonitory to and luith carnal inten-
tions, and is prevented only by some circumstances
connected with the case, such as being frightened by
other parties appearing, or impossibility of penetra-
tion without serious results, etc, etc.

Infants but two and three years of age are often
raped, by men of all ages, not only for present grati-
fication, but to familiarize girls of immature ages
; with carnal matters, and to excite, so that seduction
may be easy in future. We could mention many in-
stances of this kind of outrage, but one will suffice.

A case occurred in New Orleans, eight years since^
where a young man of nineteen years of age took
\, his employer's little daughter of three years and
gave her venereal disease. The attending doctor gave
the author a history of the treatment of the case with

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the minute vagina and urethra that made treatment
so difficult and so uncertain regarding her future con-
dition.

The only just way to deal with a man guilty of \
irape is to castrate him, for a man who has once been
guilty in the face of all the influences against what
is worse than murder, a term in prison will not make
respectable.

The time is coming when a respectable lawyer
will not defend such a man for filthy lucre — he or
she will not draw up every point of law and twist
it so as to defeat justice.

It is a lamentable fact that nearly every case of
rape, gives a ruined victim to the world, for the vile
magnetism that is imparted by the fiend, is so infused
in the system of the victim that vice of the various
grades is irresistible, (see the Language of the
ITerves.) Let judges and attorneys hereafter look
upon and talk up to juries the metaphysical injuries
as no courts have ever heard before — let no lawyer
plead an after life of an injured girl as a reason why
there should be no verdict as-ainst him.

o

So long as children are begotten by force, so long
as boys have the example that physical strength shall
rule over women of any age or under any circum-
stances in life, will the outrage of rape be commit-
ted.

More children are begotten in marital rapes than

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ill any other way. If the ovum is in a proper con-
dition and is met by the spermatozoa conception must
result, for the laws of conception cannot be contro-
verted by anger or hatred on one side and outraged
womanhood on the other.

The ordinary dress of women of all ages makes
the facilities for rapes complete, and until the moral
reform undersuits, and indeed the whole reform
dress is worn, the best of girls and even women will
^be raped by certain classes of men.

The first step towards making the world better
morally, is comprehended in not only a full knowl-
edo-e of the effects of vice as seen in the Lano:uao:e
of the I^erves, but in all womanhood being properly
protected by dress in its best style.

The ordinary dress of woman by debilitating her
body causes her mind to be also weakened. Woman
is, if not in absolute misery from dress, so uncomfortable
that she cannot think gravely 'and deeply. If a man
has but a sliver in his finger, he cannot write a fine
article or do himself justice in a speech. That is as
nothing compared with the enervating eftects and
miseries of woman caused by dress.

In order to have a sound moralist, one able to cope
with life as it is and leave pure examples as well
;as precepts, the dress question is of ^practicable import-
.ance.

How much of immorality is directly chargeable

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to woman's dress, we cannot pretend to elaborate in
this work. This much we will affirm, that there
wall be scarcely any perceptible difterence in the tone
of morals — difference for the better, until both im-
mature and mature woman is protected by dress, as
110 w^omen are who dress in the ordinary styles. This
us so well known that it needs no mention, only to
remind the better class of men, that while there are
all around us women dressed so that the facilities of \ -
vice are perfect, we can expect nothing better than I ^
street rapes occasionally and parlor rapes without ^
number.

AVe cannot too strongly impress upon the fathers
of daughters their duty in seeing that their little
girls are instructed in regard to the certainty of \ y
protecting themselves against rapes, by grabbing j
.\the testicles. So seiisative are they that a man is at
once weakened and made powerless to injure woman,

A case occured in Pennsylvania, where a young
girl learned that her seducer was about to marry.
When she saw him again he renewed his immoral
attentions to her with a response from her hands in
the shape of actually fracturing the muscles of the
penis. The best of medical attention was procured
but he was forever crippled and disabled, but the
injury to the testicles is as effective a protection and
much easier. And when women generally under-
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sensitive is the scrotum, rapes will be fewer. But
sexual wrongs will not cease until the reform dress

^ becomes general. The underclothes are so construc-

^ ted that a rape would be impossible.

Reform Underdress.

The undersuits are perfect covering from head to
feet. They are so arranged as to be a perfect pro-
tection. They are economical as regards amount
of cloth and washing. One suit comprising drawers,,
chemise and cuffs. The stockings are drawn over
the drawers, doing away with the necessity for any
devices to hold up the stockings, l^othing has been
invented in the shape of stockings suspenders that
are not injurious in some way. It will be readily
seen that there are no bands around the waist as is
the case where drawers are worn in the usual way.
No one's hips can support drawers or petticoat bands
w^ithout injury to the kidneys and bladder in men,
and to those organs in woman, besides the more
serious effect of a pressure upon the internal organs
of woman. They are directly over the fallopian
tubes, ovaries and top of the uterus injuring by in-
flaming, as well as prolapsing.

All kinds and classes of evils show their own
legitimate effects in a diversity of ways, unex-
pected as well as anticipated, for no evil stops
with a sinde result. To such an extent is this true,.

Refornv Fnder stzzZ.

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that the most logical and metaphysical are filled
with surprises regarding what were yesterday casual
discoveries, and reliable evolutions of thought, and
with expectations regarding what is to-day ac-
knowledged to be buried as " unknowables." Years
and ages elapsed before some features of the mighty
predictions in regard to ''the sins of the parents
being visited upon children's children," were seen
in their unmistakable truths, as antenatal results.
But no mind can fully compass this prediction of
the seers, or rather the philosophical metaphysi-
cians of the past. Even to-day but few rush back
to causes for lessons of prevention but blindly walk
forth with their sophistry regarding cures, in the
shape of prisons, asylums, almshouses, midnight
meetings and reform schools.

An opportunity is afibrded to illustrate the deep-
rooted, and wide-branched antenatal evils both in
China and America, since a hundred-thousand
Chinese have come to our Western shores. Only
about ten thousand of these are women. Fashion in
China has made women helpless, and therefore crip-
pled their morals by crippling their feet, and unfit-
ting them to perform the active duties of life.

And so the home work is done by men. The
outrageous crippling of women all over by dress, un-
fitting all American women for the duties of life,
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made it imperative that men should take the places
of house servants and maids of all work. This de-
mand is supplied by the Chinamen. They perform
all the household duties the same as a girl would do^
and is it at all surprising that, being so constantly
with women and girls of the family, (men with all
the passions of men without much culture of brain)
is it, v/e repeat, surprising that with only one China
woman in the country to nine Chinamen, that such
men should by both foul and fair means improve
sexual opportunities, since a large number of even
this small number of China w^omen are used ex-
clusively by American men? And these men, the
husbands and fathers of their employers.
. The American women before and since their resi-
dence in the far West, found it impossible to employ
white girl labor w^ithout their husbands and sons
having sexual commerce with them, and now the tables
are unexpectedly turned, and husbands and fathers
can no longer expect purity at home, except wdiere-
it is from intelligence and not from ignorance and pro-
tective exclusion. Men's waves all over the country
are ripe for miything since their husbands, through the
language of the nerve^^ and in so many ways have
proved their own course in life, and unwittingly paved
the way for their waives and daughters to walk there-
in.

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dition of the women of the country ebbing with •
billow swiftness to the heartless shoals of sexual /
license.

Woman's Dress.

The question of dress and the social evil is so great
that we can but mention the same in this work.
We quote from men and women as follows :

Here I wish to call attention to another point of
practical utility — the relation of dress to prostitu--
tion. Long ago I observed that in peasant life,
where dress Avas loose and simple, illegal prostitu-
tion was nearly unknovrn. In cities, where cost in
cut and quality of dress are extreme, the greatest
proportion of prostitutes to the whole population is
found. Investigation has even proven that the ex-
cess of costume and adornment exhibited is matched,
by excess proportionate in social vice and intemper-
ance generally. It is found that of abandoned
women not over one in tvrenty are so from choice, not
over one-fifth from real necessity, and the majority .
are so from a desire to dress as richly as the wealthy
when their earnings are insufhcient. .Dress and the
fatigue of laboring in its perplexities is the first in-
ducement.

T. W. Organ, M. D.,
Ohio.

That woman should be the victim to customs so
demoralizing and destructive to the highest good of
all is the misfortune of her sex, the curse of the race.
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drape themselves in costumes that are a badge of
servitude and an emblem of imbecility is a problem
unsolved. To philanthropic minds, no subjects
seeking the general welfare appeals for aid with more
reason than this of substituting comfort and freedom
for torture and tyranny in dress.

Considering how it cripples the physical and
dwarfs the mental faculties, how aesthetic culture
and soul aspiration are defeated, we find pressing
incentives to earnest effort for its overthrow.

Brave souls with persistent energy consecrate their
lives to the service of humanity.

S. L. 0. Allen,

South IsTewbury, Ohio.

I sympathize with all who cry and sigh for de-
liverance from the fickle yet persistent goddess —
Fashion, who subjugates nearly all the women of
our land. It astonishes me that they so easily yield,
when their freedom needs but general revolt. How
; can a man think his daughter equal to his son when
\ she finds satisfaction in bonnets, sleeves and skirts
that forbid achievements, and he is intent on vast
interests ?

\ Women have always been slaves, and are, if not
wholly on the chattel principle, they consent to be so
shackled and feebled by fashion, that the few who
know what they want have not mind-force to put on
the means of jpower^ the emblems of liberty^ and take
both as fast as able.

Of all the difiiculties with which she now contends,
none is more serious in direct and remote bearings
than the dress imposes. The great thing in the
way of deliverance is that fashion makes her dress

ORGANS OF CHEST, ABDOMEN AND PELVIS.

1. Lungs.

2. Heart.

3. Diaphragm.

4. Spleen.

5. Stomach and part of liver.

6. Intestines.
*7. Uterus.

8. Vagina.

9. Bladder.

10. Anus.

11. Spine.

The first principle to be observed in dress, is perfect
freedom of motion for every muscle. There can be no
, restraints without injury, not only to the particular part,
\ but to every part, through the law of sympathy.

There should be such an equal distribution of cloth-
% ing, that the blood may circulate freely. This cannot
be the case without an equal temperature, for the blood
is expelled by cold to respond to the invitation of heat.
This is also true regarding the circulation of the nervo_
magnetic vital fluid, which is expended so largely in
transporting the ordinary clothing of women.

The man who loads his beast of burden with utterly
useless gearing, would be considered idiotic or insane ;
but what shall we say of him who oppresses woman be-
cause she relieves herself of utterly useless weights and
locomotion obstructors ?

Orgcows of CJzest,

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not onl}' the symbol of her sex, but of inferiority
because of sex. I care not so much that sex be shown
by her dress, as that it thereby compels her to suffer
disadvantage in the use of her powers.

J. C. Jackson, M. D.,

Dansville, X. Y.

Would that I could encourage weak, deluded
women to be true to themselves, abandon slavery
to fashion, and gain strength to fulfil life's duties
joyously!

Mrs. S. E. Michener,

California.

Men and women while acknowledging the ravages
that fashion makes on health, insist that the style we
substitute must be beautiful, and that garments cloth-
ing the legs separately are homely and unattractive,
though exceedingly convenient. They do not reject
the most deforming device of fashion. The difficulty
is plainly here : long habit and transmitted tendency
have so accustomed the mind to follow the frequent
changes of fashion that it readily assumes that the
last style is preferable, and accepting without com-
paring and choosing for itself, individuality is silenced
and weakened, and only the false notion that drapery
alone is feminine, speaks intaste. Conceding the point
of a general chain of consistency, all that is required
to make a natural dress beautiful is use. If long use
can make the caricatures that licentiousness and
avarice have palmed on the ages appear beautiful,
have no fears that something comforting, strength-
ening, liberating and rejoicing will not prove beauti-
fying.

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While bodies are cached in the petticoat badge of
dependence and inferiority, minds and souls are sub-
ject to evil, psychologizing wills and cannot com-
mand themselves ; whereas crowns of strength, joy
and sufficiency, with choice of jjlace in the exercise
of power await the Unbound Woman.

Fearing to put forth endeavors because all cannot
see and approve the purpose involved, because chil-
dren accustomed to wading cannot appreciate walk-
ing, would be cowardice withering to my spirit.

Mary E. Tillottson,

Vineland, ^s". J.

Woman having no proper physical training or
scientific advantages, no highly remunerative em-
ployment or official trust, they are, aS a rule, untaught,
unskilled, unenterprising ; hence have thought more
of adorning the body than of high culture. To cap-

Mtivate the superior sex, win approval and companion-
ship, has seemed the aim, dress the means.

Fashion and goods speculators see their chance and
make both dupes and fortunes by millions, reckless
of the ruin. Deploring the grave dilemma, I gladly
hail every earnest movement among women, however
difficult, to correct the bad taste, pernicious example
and foolish stupidity seen in the wasteful profusion
and absolute deformity of fashion. I would encour-
age the institution of a style for women, combining
neatness, propriety, artistic skill, with entire freedom
of choice and in accordance with the laws of health.

William L. Garrison,

Boston^ Mass.

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99

"My motto in dress is Utility, Comfort, Economy."'

LUCRETIA MOTT,

Philadelphia.

I think the tyranny of fashion in dress the great-
est obstacles to reform.

C. A. Bartoll,

Boston, Mass.

I feel anxious that this dress movement, so well
begun, should be carried out by American women,
on American soiL

-X- -Jf -X- ^ ■;<-

Popular opinion ever opposes reforms, and makes
them move like ships against head- winds.

A. B. Bradford,

Enon Valley, Pa.

In view of the immense importance of rightly re-
lating clothing to the law controlling these precious
living temples, no more sacred theme can claim our
care. Looking on humanity to-day, the most strik-
ing abuse of law is apparent in the burdeus dragged
by women in lieu of legitimate dress. A thorough,
radical change in their style becomes at once a ne-
cessity.

William S. Flanders,

Corn vi lie, Me.

Leaden apathy or racking pain is far nearer the
rule with us than the exception. It needs no argu-
ment to convince thoughtful observers that the most
prolific cause of this is the pernicious moles of pre-
vailing dress.

J. Chase,

Vineland, K J.

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The woman whose dress shows she is human proves
she is worthy of equity.

Women cannot grasp and shape their destiny till
done through physical freedom, till feet are free as
hands, legs as free as arms.

J. Treat,

New York.

The styles of the civilized world, so called by the
monster monarch, fickle fashion, are irrational life-
destroying, mind-belittling, brain-heating, waist-com-
pressing, ankle-wrenching, feet-pinching, back-break-
ing, lust-engendering, child and mother-murdering,
race-degrading.

"Women should see that asking rights is useless till
they take the right to clothe themselves at least as
comfortably as men.

J. M. Allen,

Massachusetts.

Preaching freedom in Fetters.

What can be said of the many woman speakers ad-
vocating liberty, equality, spiritual elevation and
moral reformation, yet pleading, with bodies legs and
feet almost helplessly hampered ? I view them with
a sickening sense, pity them from the deeps of a
sad soul and exclaim, poor, sick sisters ! The most
that you are doing is to burlesque your weak, cow-
ard selves 1 You fall before a Juggernaut that has
no palliating merit ! What is life without health ?
What value has freedom without power to use it ?

S. Mitchell,

Yineland, N. J.

V

RETROYERSION OF THE UTERUS.

1. Spine.

2. Intestines.

3. Bladder.

4. Retroverted Uterus.

5. Yagina.

6. Rectum.
Y. Urethra.

In retroversion the uterus (4) presses against the iec-
i turn (6), preventing the feces from reaching ^the anus.
I While the top of the uterus presses against the rectum
(6), the osuteri presses against the bladder (3) and the
; intestines (2) fall upon the uterus and all of its attach-
ments. In this plate, in anteversion, will be seen the
abnormal position of the pelvic organs of woman. Or-
gans of chest, &c., is the normal condition, as demon-
strated by Berta Yon Hillern's power to walk. Were
a corsetted, long dressed woman to attempt such physical
culture, worse abnormal conditions just mentioned would
be the result, bad as are nearly all women at present

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When a dress prevails that gives full scope to all
bodily powers, long depressed womanhood may reach
normal endowment.

A. E. Davis,

Worcester, Mass.

Reformers aiming at a style to serve health and all
the duties and high attainments of our manifold ca-
pacities are right, and should be abetted by all lovers
of human welfare.

J. M. Spear,

Philadelphia.

To enlightened taste that is truly beautiful which is
in harmony with law and immutable order. What-
ever dwarfs human powers comes of ignorance, tends
to weakness and woe, and is deformity.

D. M. Allen,

South ^ewburg, Ohio.

I cannot express my admiration of woman's re-
formed dress.

E. M. Howard,
Ohio.

It is a sorry sight to see a specimen of elaborately
dressed frailty, and know that in those lovely shoes
are comfortless feet, in that coil of beautiful hair an
aching head, and under exquisite folds and puffs all
manner of pads, pains and miseries.

Two things seem needed to remedy abuses in dress.
First and best, is independence in women. ^

A professional man whose wife wishes to wear a
short dress fears it would compromise him in his pro-
fession. He makes her carry his fortune on her hips.

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A liiisbancl would look better saying, "my dear, dress
comfortably if you can.

Rev. S. C. Beach,

Norton, Mass.

How can those who ever call for the freedom they
have not persist in trampling on the more important
rights they possess? Their style of dress embar-
rasses every motion, and makes a most aggravated
slave of the ever-worried body, and through that the
never free or full-grow^n mind. Healthful dress can-
not w^ell be unbecoming. Tight waists, draggling
skirts, half-clothed legs, for a business woman, are
worse than ludicrous — are suicidal.

S. L. TiBBALS,

Manchester, Ya.

My dress is what is known as the American Cos-
tume. I have no thought of returning to the slavery
and corruption of Fashion, but do expect to change
my style when finding what is better. I have
traveled much, and know the slights, cold shoulders,
jeers, etc., that the ill-bred ofter.

L. F. Stegman,

Allegan, Mich.

Merciless Fashion annually sacrifices millions of
human beings on its murderous altar. A sound mind
in a soimd body, a free mind in a free body, mean
something that ought to open women's eyes to the
duties they owe themselves. Grirls study physiol-
ogy and are not taught to apply its lore or regard its
many warnings. Their lives pay the penalty.

J. H. Cook,

Columbus, Kan.

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103

The varied benefits and constant comforts of my
dress are so great that no temptation to retnrn to
swaddhng clothes has assailed me. And yet mider-
lying this important change is a principle that should
prompt us to persevere, if selfish aids should prove,
as some have said, not compensator}^ Abolishing
the servile imitation of degrading customs, especially
in dress, is among earth's imperative duties.
Emeline a. Prescott,

N"orth Vassalboro', Maine.

Experience teaches me that a woman may wear the
costume and gain respect by simply respecting her-
self.

C. Fanny Allyn,

Stoneham, Mass.

I have made my own way in the world. Have
succeeded in the vocations of teacher, merchant and
farmer ; traveled from Maine to Florida ; met all
shades of treatment, from profound respect and high
encomium to low shouts of rabbles, and the hiss of
well-dressed bipeds. Think I have never talked with
a stranger who was prejudiced against the dress
without making the path easier for the next one he
may meet in the American Costume. Through all
opposition the personal benefits of the reform have
compensated ; but had it been mainly sacrifice, the
thought of working for the amelioration of woman
and the elevation of humanity would still have been
the beacon-star guiding me on amid all discourage-
ments.

S. P. Fowler,

Vineland, K. J.

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The sympathies of my soul are with those laboring
to convince weak women that they need not obey life-
torturing fashion.

F. E. Eeece,

Minnesota.

We should have liberty to experiment with the
widest range of garments, and use any that are
adapted to our taste, needs and employments, without
private or public molestation. Until this can be
done all discussions on the relative capacity of men
and women are ill-timed and in bad taste.

Olivia Shepherd,

Vineland, IsT. J.

Yielding to usage and prejudice lulls conscience,
and fearing gossip checks the course of knowledge.
"Woman aspires to high culture and pursuits, and
seems not to know her slavery to dress forbids at-
tainment.

L. E. Jackson, M. D.,

Dansville, New York.

The laws of health, beauty, fitness, economy, con-
venience, comfort and decency are violated in most of
women's present styles.

All know what is threatened if we call our brother
a fool ; but T call him who weds a fashionable woman
in these times a fool, and risk consequences. His
risk must surely be great as mine. Saying less, I
should be unworthy to subscribe, — Friend of Hu-
manity.

♦ P. PiLLSBURY,

Concord, N. H.

Uteri? le Or^i^ans.

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105

For twenty -five years I have been teaching medi-
cal classes to trace most of society's maladies, es-
pecially those of women, to the dress that devitalizes
the whole system, hence deteriorates the offspring,
early made orphans. It has long been my custom to
classify the four leading curses of civilization thus :
1st, alchol ; 2d, tobacco ; 3d, drugs ; 4th, fashion. But
the more familiar the subject becomes, the more I
see of incurable cases, — traceable to corsets and drag-
gling skirts, meretricious head-gear, and leg-beating
flounces, — the surer I come to reverse the order and
place fashions in dress at the head of the horrid
category. No woman, dressed fashionably, can
breath or walk normally. Without free respiration
no pure blood flows, giving firm muscle to act and '
vigorous brain to think and feel. Just to the extent^^
that she constricts the lungs, loads the hips, oppres- ;
ses the head, and burdens the limbs, she demoralizes
her whole nature, becomes morbid, demented, pa-
ralyzed and perverse. I see no hope of her attaining
relief or higher conditions of any kind till ceasing
to display in costume the badges of self-imposed de-
gradation, and banishing the scare-crow whim that
natural, hygienic dress is unwomanly, takes the >
free use of lungs, ribs, legs and feet.

R. t. Trall, M. D.

Florence, New Jersey.

Fashionable attire is ruinous to the sexual organs ^
of women.

Dr. Sarah B. Chase,

New York City.

If space permitted, we could make many thousands

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.of quotations, but these could not all speak so em-
phatically as the lives of such dress reformers as Dr.
Susan Way Dodds, St. Louis, Mo. ; Dr. Lydia Sayer
Hasbrouck, Middletown, i^". Y. : Dr. Lydia A. Strow-
bridge, Cortland, N". Y. ; Dr. Ellen Baird Ilarman,
^'iorence, iT. J., and other physicians who are practi-
cal exponants of the vital principals so important to
over-burdened women.

The doctor, whether man or woman, who does not
advocate a reform costume for woman, clearly shows
an ignorance of the causes of diseases and displace-
ment in woman, not only, but fails to comprehend
one of the chief causes of the deaths of 100,000 in-
fants annually, the imbecility and diseases of boys as
well as girls, besides the tendancy to insanity, and a
long train of evils that one with large causality and
metaphysical acumen is appalled at beholding.

Such an array of evils grow out of woman's ever
changing, extravagant, licentious, debilitating, dis-
easing, immoral doll-baby dress, that fashion imposes
upon women, that make the great mass of them per-
fect monomaniacs on dress, that appalls a practical
exampler of modest, useful, economical, moral, health-
ful, common-sense costume.

Men who encourage this and women who talk
.about "reform schools" or reforms of any kind so
•arrayed and gewgawed, had better repeat the words
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them: '-''Tliey loho would, reform others^ must first re-
form themselves.'^

These diamond words are utterances so deep and
-comprehensive that those who do not heed them, are
sure to find themselves in a position too ridiculous for
common pity. But a little time will elapse before
the world will see this truth in all its clearness.

Refoj:ms of all kinds are so linked and interwo-
/^Ten that they must progress together; but in or-
Vder to be permanent they must have the foundations
secure. Such foundations are in health of body and
mind, and the ordinary costume of ivomen disease both,
Isot only do they have this effect on women and
their children, both girls and boys, but husbands^ of
such wives suffer also.

They are irritated in their sexual organs, and they
seek other women for relief. The irritability is an
effort to throw off impure elements, and the more
the remedy in either variety or excuse is sought, the
harder nature labors to throw off the deleterious
elements gathered up, producing still greater irrita-
bility that is mistaken for strength of passion.

Every means is devised to satisfy this morbid state,
and with shame for the depravity of human nature
we record that in our own country not ordinary men,
but so-called gentlemen, are guilty of using the rectum
of their wives. This is for the double purpose of

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I /getting strong muscular contraction, and to ]3revent
conception.

There is no language that can express the more
than barbarous outrage of such acts. The agony
that is experienced by woman until the sphincter anii
[ is so expanded and lacerated that it has lost contrac-
\ tile power, cannot he expressed. Such is the con-
struction of the rectum that large foeces can, without
difficulty, he voided, but nothing of half the size
can be introduced without extreme agony, not only,
but after the inflammation subsides there is a tender-
ness and uncomfortableness besides an inability to
control the foecal discharge, necessitating them to
-wear a protector from exposure. They cannot sit
down without being in misery. Their whole nerve
/ s^'Stem suffers from this most cruel tyranny. Can-
j cer of the bowels finally results. But the men are
not exempt from penalties for violation of law. The
/nearer the worn out, effete matter approaches the
I exit, the more poisonous it becomes and neither sitz-
t baths or enema can cleans the parts so but that much
remains in the multitudinous folds.

This filthiness is absorbed by man and produces a
. depravity that he cannot throw off, besides urethral
? stricture caused by repulsion to the filthy unnatu-
ralness of such contact.

The bare proposition from a husband to a wife for
( such a relationship ought to be a sufficient cause for

PROLAPSUS UTERI.

1. Spine.

2. Intestines.

3. Bladder.

4. Prolapsed Uterus.

The uterus (4) is frequently prolapsed, so that the
whole orgaii is outside of the vagina. The illustration
before us shows that it is as nearly prolapsed as possible
and not be outside of the body. The intestines (2) are
also prolapsed. We have had a case where a portion of
the same were outside and below the uterus.

See organs of chest, figure 9, that the bladder is nearly
round in its natural condition. The shape see (3) in pro-
lapsus uteri, and in retroversion, and in anteversion, that
other organs are so pressed against it that it must yield
its rotundity. In prolapsus all the organs of the pelvis
are displaced. Few know that the ordinary style of
woman's dress will produce this and all other weakness
of women without any other cause.

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divorce, but when it comes to compulsion, imprison-
ment for life ouo;ht to be the penalty.

Astonishing as it may seem to women, there are
many men who actually believe that no rape of any
kind can be committed on women. They have this
idea from the illustration of Queen Elizabeth of
England, who would not sign any death warrants
because she believed that ever^^ woman could take
€are of herself. She did not realize in her protected
position how brutal men would dare to be, and how
much greater was man's phyical strength.

Men will never have just laws until women physi- x
€ians are in the great councils of the nation.

Nothing hut the sternest sense of duty to helpless ^
loomen could impell us to j^en ichat is so revolting to
every sense of decent humcmity as is the shameful red-
^ tal of outraged decency just related. Moral courage is
carried to its greatest tension, but above all this a
whisper of encouragement comes as we w^rite through
blinding tears, what we have been long agonizing
over the necessity for writing, and struggling to get
moral courage enough to carry out our convictions,
that ignoring evils can never remedy them. The illogi-
cal and surface wise, but deeply ignorant, cannot see
the necessity for arraying the evils of all classes be-
fore the broad light of day, and disgusting the be-
holders, little realizing that there is no effectual way
of destroying the moths of corruption that eat out

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all grandeur of soul in the dark of ignorance and
vice, and that sunlight of facts alone can do so.

We place evil on a pedestal, and array the results
around it and behold the eftect.

"We call forth eternal principles and calmly discuss
them. If silence could do the work, all Christendom
could not open our mouth, but as nothing but an
expose of the wrongs to woman and the wrongs to-
pure manhood can be rightened and prevented, all
Christendom can not close our mouth. Every wrong,
/ no matter how base, has advocates attempting to
! justify the same not only, but to establish it as a
^ right. It matters not how monstrous it may be.
/ But of all the iniquities of the social evil we have
\ yet to relate the following as the most heinous pos-
sible :

The idea has been disseminated that the "eating of
semen by women and the sipping of the exundations
H of women by men, will promote health, prolong life,
land promote beauty."

This consummation of the basest of degradations is
\j practiced not only by the fast but by husbands and
\their wives.

The public money might better be expended in
teaching the monstrousness and results of baseness
so vile that adjectives cannot be found sufficiently
expressive to reach the case, instead of arresting for
disseminating obscene matter.

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Such degradation not only debases so that the
whole expression of face is soon so hateful that one
is repelled at a glance, but the brain is so injured^
^that an incurable phase of insanity results.

What is thrown off by men and women have a
certain mission and eiFect, and is then not only of no-^
more use, but is a positive injury if retained. 'Na-
ture makes no mistakes, and her laws cannot be in-
fringed without penalties.

-N"othing feeds the system that is taken into the
stomach, only as it goes through the processes of di-
gestion and assimilation, and instead of such disgust-
I ing uses of effete matter being beneficial to the or-
\gans of generation they are serious detriments.

It does seem that the depths of human depravity^
have been reached, and it is time that human beings
realized that there is something better in life than
^ making a study how to turn all the best of energies^
V to licentiousness.

It is a great mystery to many, why men in high^,
lucrative and responsible positions cannot resist temp-
tations to frauds, thefts, embezzlements, etc., but
to us it is not so strange since it is well known that
"wine, women and iniquities" have always been'
classed together.

The women who are the victims of such men,
must d ress fashionably in order to keep in their graces,
and the men well know that large sums of money-

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must be given women in order to have them dress
well and live in a style becoming a mistress of theirs.
It is necessary in order to cloak the true life of the
woman, for the man to furnish means sufficient to
have her be living on a seeming income. Thus the
true relationship is covered up for a time, and calls
seem to be those only of ordinary friendship in the
position.

These w^omen constantly living false lives of re-
spectability, must of necessity be avaricious, since
fashions are ever changing, and to dress as well as
the wives, daughters or sisters of the men that sup-
port them, and in whose society they mingle, a large
amount of money is necessary. The relationship
\sexual, with such women, so fills such men with the
. avarice that they imbibe from them through the
f magnetic influences of the relation, that such men
are fit for any crimes to gain money. Men lose the
moral power to resist evils when they take upon
themselves the vile magnetisms of such women, who
obtain a power over them that cannot be thrown oft'
immediately. They lose the power of will, and no
matter how much their reason may protest against
their course, it is of no use when will is powerless.

We are not sure that it would not be a moral
crime for any one to be silent who sees the causes
and eftect of human wrongs, and how government
as well as individuals snfter because the true reasons

PROLAPSUS UTERI.

1. Spine.

2. Intestines.

3. Bladder.

4. Prolapsed Uterus.

The uterus (4) is frequently prolapsed, so that the
whole organ is outside of the vagina. The illustration
before us shows that it is as nearly prolapsed as possible
and not be outside of the bod}^ The intestines (2) are
also prolapsed. We have had a case where a portion of
the same were outside and below the uterus.

See organs of chest, figure 9, that the bladder is nearly
round in its natural condition. The shape see (3) in pro-
lapsus uteri, and in retroversion, and in anteversion, that
other organs are so pressed against it that it must yield
its rotundity. In prolapsus all the organs of the pelvis
are displaced. Few know that the ordinary style of
woman's dress will produce this and all other weakness
of women without any other cause.

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have not been clearly set forth, and men given "line
npon line, and precept upon precept" until the con- '
tinned warnino's shall be heeded.

Masturbation.

There has never been a reliorious sect that has in-,
augurated the all -important law of protection toj
the unborn as have the Mormons. If all the evils
with which they have been charged were true, they
would weigh but little in comparison with the great
and important ideas that they have established re- \
garding the perfect protection of the enceinte woman /
from sexual abuse. All the strength of mind and
body go to build up the child in utero, instead of en-
feebling it by any sexual relation. Children born with
such antenatal conditions have so much better nerves,
and better control of their organs of sex, that they
will have no desire to practice masturbation, to be
polygamists, or sensualists. A large number of Mor-
mons are not polygamists in practice, and do not use
tobacco or any intoxicating drinks, and so we must
look to the Mormons for a better race of people.
Purity of manhood mnst come from the Mormons
in greater numbers than from any other church un-
less there is a radical change in the churches, by ad-
vising the selfhood of women in the marriage re-
lation to be sustained by their church creeds. Then

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will masturbation be lessened, and with a knowledge
of its effects soon cease altogether.

The world was shocked when Fowler & Wells sent
forth the truths to the world regarding the practice
of masturbation being so great among the young.

Many people were quite angry because of the
sweeping assertions made by these doctors, but close
observation proved that all was true. The great in-
jury to body and mind from this cause cannot be
computed. The wrecks in insane asylums all over
the country, the loss of general health, the inability
to be stable, and a long category of evil results are
now clearly to be discerned. All of which result
from the utter ignorance of the subject. Tobacco,
intoxicating drinks, pepper, and the heating and
dragging of the mother's clothing all effect the boy
in utero so that an effort for relief is made by mas-
turbation.

The boys of to-day have more to contend with
because of their antenatal condition than is apparent
to those who have had but little thought upon the
subject, for they are born with an inflamed prostate
gland: this is situated around the urethra and
in masturbation, (long before puberty,) gives forth a
discharge. After puberty it frequently occurs that
no amount of sexual variety or excess will prevent men
from masturbation. This is sometimes practiced in
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middle life than at any other time. ^Tatiire takes
away the power of sexual gratification from men at
a certain age. The time varies, and men who do not
understand this law, rush to physicians for remedies..
Excesses in sexual commerce and masturbation both
leave old men with an irritable condition of the or-
gans of sex, owing to an inflamed and enlarged i3ros-
tate gland. The old man must pay for his iniqui-
ties in other w^ays than those usually considered.

^ot only are the boys addicted to this practice as
a result of the causes just mentioned, but one has
only to visit the teachers of schools of every grade
and age, where girls are sent, to be convinced to
what an extent the wrongs of parents are visited upon
daughters as well as sons.

one can practice this vice without the sure
marks of the same being left in the face.

In a certain country the making of rubber male- ^
organs for the ji^nrpose of facilitating girls in mastur-
bation, is a lucrative business. The cost of manu-
facturing is about thirty cents, and they retail at
from two to three dollars. They are of difterent
sizes, and girls of various ages are taught by their
companions their uses. When one size is outgrown^
a larger size is purchased. They are kept at fancy
shops attended by w^omen, who ask their lady custo- .
mers ''wha^ number of the Ladies' Companion they
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i lady begins to talk about the magazines of that name,
^she is informed that "the 'Companion' is in a box."
/ This kind of masturbation, like all other ways of
[ secret vice, sooner or later leads to sexual relations. ^
The effects of this vice on men are numerous. The
most usual are consumption, insanity, softening of
the brain and disease of the cuticle, and while all
these are the effect on women, there is also an elon-
/gation of the clitoris, and a formation of warty ex-
'|crescences on the vulva. Men or women who are
addicted to this vice, cannot become parents of either
a superior mental or physical type of humanity, be-
cause of loss of power. Such a person cannot be a
desirable husband or wife, because of the loss of
magnetic power.

ISTothing so destroys the ability to think deeply,
logically, gradually and connectedly as does orgasm
even in the natural way if frequent, but especially
in this true when produced in other ways.

The Oneida communit}^ learned this, and soon
incorporated the idea in their religious teachings,
and would have deserved the name of "Perfection-
ists,"' if they had lived up to their ideas, and not
/substituted promiscuity under certain arrange-
\ ments. Their infringement of the great law, that
sexual relation should not be had without emission,
and that for posterity alone has aroused the thinker
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\vancing, for the long continued sexual excitement '\
with suppressed orgasm' is a serious injury to both/
body and mind.

TTature provides that the secretions of the relation
should be properly mixed, one purpose of which is
to sooth the nerves of both organs.

Their relationship is one of organized sensuality
that does not fail to produce direful results on the
minds and bodies of their participants, and but for the
\Onedia women wearing reform dresses, having an
excellent diet, being systematic in exercise, and not
being overworked, the bad results would be still more
apparent.

The rede_eming feature of the men, in never co-
ercing women into sexual relationships has induced
abused women to join the Onedia community. But
we must forever condemn the double masturbation
that sexual relation certainly is, when for licentious
purpose alone, instead of for the procreation of hu-
manity. But for women submitting to promiscuous
sexual relations, they could not have their homes.

This we assert as a rule. Their submitting will
make secret vice in their children a certain result,
' for such an excitement of the organs of sex cannot \
fail to produce their legitimate results in posterity.''^
It is well for the world that all kinds of experi-
ments to evade the great and beautiful law of mo-
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an unrestrained manner under the law of religious
liberty, for it is only through all of these experiences
that those incapable of metaphysical depth can see
the great laws of beauty and harmony as exemplified
in the grandeur of a life free from all the objectionable
features that such experiments have disclosed.

All kinds of vices and outrageous ways of human
beings has caused some geniuses to invent remedies
for relief from results in the shape of supporters,
pessaries, trusses, uterine elevators, suspension ban-
dages, etc., etc. But not until 1870 was the perfec-
tion of an equal to the Spanish inquisition patented
by the United States. 'No doubt the inventor's in-
tentions were good, as the following will show :

"My invention is a device for so covering up the
sexual organs of a person addicted to the vice of
masturbation, from his own touch and control, that
he or she must refrain from the commission of the
vicious and self-degrading act.

"It is well known to those who have charge of pris-
ons, reform-schools, and the like, that the practice of
masturbation becomes all but universal among those
confined therein. It is also well known to physi-
cians, and to some heads of families, that multitudes
of children of both sexes injure their moral and
jDhysical natures for life by the practice of this vice.

"My invention is designed to put it into the power

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of those who have the control of all such persons to
entirely prevent the practice."

We well knew that it came from a man^ and he
not a physician, for no intelligent woman would have
been guilty of sending forth such an instrument, and
when there shall be a woman doctor as an examiner
for all articles intended for the use of women, noth-
ing so monstrous will ever be patented. AYe will
2;o farther and say crueL

Here is the description :

"A band encircling the body just above the hips,
the band being locked together behind by a small
p)adlock, or other suitable device, the key to which
is to be carried by the person who has charge of the
masturbator.

" In front this band is connected, by numerous
strips, with the lower band which at the rear passes
down, one end under the leg, and both ends are at-
tached to the rear of the pouch which pouch is made
somewhat bag-like for the purpose of containing
the organs. The front part of the pouch is attached
to the lower band in front of the person.

''These various parts — the upper and lower bands,
the connecting strips, and the pouch — may be of
cloth, leather, or metal, or, in fact, any other con-
venient material. If made of metal, the j)arts which
bear against the body must be padded to prevent
chafing and injury to the person.

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"The pouch should (at least I so prefer it) be made
of rubber or metal, and at the rear a small hole or
spout is left for the discharge of urine.

" The apparatus must be so fitted to the body as to
have the edges of the pouch fit close against the per-
son, so that it will be impossible for the wearer to
touch the confined organ.

"If the connecting strips are made of metal, they
should be hinged or pivoted to both the upper and
lower bands, so as to allow free movement of the
body.

"In addition to its property as a protector, this de-
vice serves a useful purpose in sustaining the bowels,
like a truss, or as furnishing the foundation for the
attachment of shoulder-braces.

" It is recommended that all the parts be made as
flexible as is consistent with the office they have to
perform."

In the first place there is no necessity for such an
inquisitorial device, for a reform dress will prevent
seduction and rape. If only pants are made in the
ordinary way of slash fronts, anything of the kind
would be impossible, for the vagina is so far from '
Ithe centre of the pants rape could not be committed.

The undersuit is so constructed that a second bar-
rier would also be met, and a third also in the second
suit that is worn, as muslin and flannel are both worn,
made in the same way. If for the purpose of pre-

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venting masturbation, a straight jacket will reniedj
that — but for the device itself. If worn in the day-
time, in order for it to be large enough to cover the
parts, and snug enough to prevent the vice being
still practiced, it would interfere not only with loco-
motion, but so heat the parts that it would excite
and agonize, besides inilaming the parts covered, and
no matter what amount of "padding," it would irri-
tate all around the pouch. The undried urine would ^
■ agonize the girl. As for the strips around the legs,
all women who wear the ordinary supporters with
only cotton strips complain of chafiing. As for the
padlock behind, that would prevent laying on the
back — the bands around the body w^ould so press
upon the hips and body as to prevent laying on
either side. But that is not the worst feature. IS'o
one can lay down and be at all comfortable with any
fastenings around them, besides the positive injury
to all pelvic organs, and no one can endure anything
as snus: around them when lavino; down as when sit-
ting or standing, and if loose enough to be endurable,
it could not be a j^f^eventive to masturbation. Any
bands of any kind around the body are injurious we
repeat to impress the fact.

To prevent an inclination to masturbation is the
object of the wise. Do away with tobacco, strong
drink and petticoats in parents, and children will
not desire to commit the deed.

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Teach the children to eschew tohacco, strono-
drinks, pepper and petticoats, and they will not be
^victims of social evils of any grade if Unmasked is
put into their hands at an early age.

Where is there a father that will not thank the
hand that saved both his boys and his girls by giv-
ing them a knowledge of all the evils of the world,
that they may be forewarned and forearmed in their
young 3^ears, before they learned by sad experience ?

Any government, whether national or local, that
obtains revenues from vice of any kind, whether it
T^e intoxicatino; drinks, tobacco or contaofious disease
acts, pay dearly for such oversight, such ignorance,
such downright crime.

When there is proper legislation regarding the
manufacture of a sufficient quantity of intoxicating
beverages for the arts, and a penalty for further de-
struction of grain and fruit food — a penalty for the
manufacture of tobacco, or putting it into the market
without strychnine or something so disgusting that it
will not be used for other than insect exterminators,
than we may with a diffusion of knowledge regard-
ing baneful effects, hope to be rid of such evils.

As for contagious disease acts^ and the revenue de-
rived from the same; the two evils just mentioned
are the parents of the necessity for considering the
question, by irritating the whole nerve system, and

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^especially that wliicli is apart of and connected with
the organs of sex.

Such inherited irritability, and such still farther
irritability by use themselves, or by sexual contact
with those who do use the same, are causes that we
lare astonished at so few comprehending. As for the
efficiency of such a vile measure as the infamous
contagious disease act, instead of lessening venereal
diseases, it is increased — first, by the appearance of
a freedom from the same when it is gnawing the in-
tricate folds of the vagina, and has extended into
the uterus, where it is impossible to discover the true
condition, as not even labor pains can relax the uterus
w^ithout so much blood flowing, that the true condi-
tion cannot possibly be seen ; second, by men rush-
xing into vice because it is sanctioned by law, and
they have full confidence in the examination protec-
tion. But the most infamous {and loe pause for lack
of adjectives to express any piux iooman\s emotionsyof
anything ever enacted by men, is that j^oor^ seduced^
helpless ivoman is made the disease monger of man^
under the guise of his being free from disease of the
most agonizing nature, and seeking her because he
is thus free and afraid of contamination, when the
real fact is, that by variety life he has become di-l
seased and thinks to rid himself by giving it to her.'

]N^othing can partake of brimstone selfishness to
so great a depth as such an act 1 1 1

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But there is not a shadow of truth in the efficac}-"
of such so]3histry. The true logic is borne out by
facts, that the freer such cases are from any excite-
ment the better in all regards.

But as long as men alone make the laws, they will
not submit to an examination themselves, to see
■whether they are free from disease, and a liability to
give it to women. If it is proper for men in the pro-
fession to examine prostitute women to see that they
are free from disease for men's use, it is as proper
that women in the profession be also salaried to ex-
amine men prostitutes to see if they are free from
.disease for women's use.

l^ow be startled with "holy horror" at such a
proposition as this, but remember that it is only
turning the tables in words but when they are turned
in reality regarding all of the one-sided sex outrages,
the beauty of tweedledee and tweedledum will be as
ajDparent to men as it is now to women.

A few men are even now looking at this one-sided
moral business and taking action in recognition of
the necessity of purity in men. Messrs. Walter
M'Larens, George Warr, and others in London havo
a Social Purity Alliance.

Fere Hyacinth, (Catholic ;) Zoadook Kahn, Grand
Eabbi of Paris ; the Archbishop of Paris : Rev. Dr.
Baur, (Episcopal,) of Germany ; Rev. Mr. Cook and
Saunter de Bloumey, of Geneva ; M. Leon Richer and

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Theodore Manocl, of Paris; Joseph iTathaii, Alphonso
Tavre, Salvantore Colonna and Prof. Darneth, of
Eome ; Orris Brusca, of Milan ; Pev. George Butler,
F. W. Benting and A. L. Bernistee, of Liverpool ;
Henry Richards, M. P., Sir Harcourt Johnson, Eight
Hon. James Stanfield, Edward Blackhouse, Dr. ^e-
vins. Dr. Eouth,Dr. Drydale, Dr. Carter, Dr. Carson,
Prof. Stewart, Prof. Sheldon, all from various places
in England, besides many others that represent all the
principal religions, the Materialists and the Spirt u-
alists.

It is to be hoped that the time is not distant when
every community will have a Social Purity Alliance
among men, where vices of all kinds will be discoun-
tenanced.

The grand men whose names we have just men-
tioned, give their culture, position, words and exam-
ples to the great work. They attended the Geneva
Congress last year, and one and all were disgusted
with any sort of contagious disease acts, or anything
sanctioning manhood impurity.

It is to be regretted that none of our finely cul-
tured American women who fully understand the
basic principles of the foundation of all permanent
reforms, {a proper dress for imnen,) were not present.
One practical exponent of a moral reform costume,
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that would have sent reform a score of years mtcf
the grand future.

Every living example of an emblematic dress of
23urity , is worth a million speeches from those women
who preach reforms of any kind while slaves to an
immoral, bedecked, befurbelowed, and petticoated
costume. Immoral women are disgusted with the-
inconsistency of such women who urge them to
leave a life that provides the same extravagance and
show of dress. Such long dressed women are ever
calling forth a presumption in the minds of those
they are working to reform, that there is the same
want of proper protection of the organs of sex, and
that the same facilities for vice can be found. And
just as long as the ordinary long dress is worn, will
there be such a presumption and such a reality.
Cleanliness is next to morality. The fanning-mill
of even ankle drapery, causes an accumulation of
dust that reaches and excites the one who wears the
same.

The purity of woman generally cannot be assured
until the immoral dressing is stopped, for it unfits
woman in body for the duties of life by its weight,
cumberousness and expense, in mind by the drain of
noble energies in following the ever changing fash-
ions.

It is not frequent that a reliable and permanent
structure of grand morality is builded upon stays,.

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petticoats, and their accompanying absurdities, and
the sooner the good men of the world see this and
understand that human perfections of body, mind
and morals, need sterner stuff than sham ""grace in
drajpery^'^ (which is but a fitting term for languor and
helplessness,) the world will be better in all regards.

Let all men do what is possible to encourage a
sentiment of beauty of mind and large understand-
ing of brain and boots, instead of talking sweet
nonsense and praising little feet.

We call upon our so-called "protectors" to do their
duty against the tyrant fashion.

"When this is done women will need no protection,
from other tyrants. This monster one that sips vi-
tality and virtue is the only one worth mention to-
be protected from, for all others will meekly bow
when the tyrant fashion is destroyed.

Women and their children will not then be suici-
dists, but will gladly live as long as they can to be
properly developed for another state of existence,
and will not be constantly longing for someting to
quiet their nerves. Men for tobacco and whisky, and.
women for gum and candy.

Obscene Publications.

The law regarding "obscene matter being sent
through the mails," is an eminently proper one.
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garding the character of questionable publications
should be in the hands of the scientific and morally
pure. Of all that have been arrested, few have de-
served to be, and instead of decreasing their sales,
the very arrests have excited curiositj^ regarding
them. Those making quotations from the Bible are
the only exception. The officer that is so ignorant
as not to be familiar with Bible history, until in-
formed in a court of justice by those defending them-
selves in suits for sending obscene matter through
the mails, ought to cut out the obscenity and make
a raid on all the Bible houses in the United States, in
order to be consistent.

'We think the Bible should be read by every mature
person, for the grandest lessons are learned of per-
verted human nature^ and the results of such per-
version on posterity. The same immoralities with
^ men making slaves of women were practiced then
as they are to-day, and it would seem that the lessons
learned from the Bible ought to prevent crimes of
the darkest hue, especially with those who believe
in its divine origin, that it does not, proves more
than many are willing to acknowledge, and Avere it
not for the friends of about fifty of many of the
ablest clergymen in this country, we should here
publish their names as proof of the vilest of immoral-
ities having been practiced by them, and in nearly all
instances their victims were "lambs of the fiock,"

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from the clergymen standing on the highest pinnacle
■of pulpit oratory, to the meekest of the clerical pro-
fession. Something more than the ordinary religion
was needed for such men. Something plainer than
even Bible history. Are their histories obscene ?

'Not only do members of churches commit all the
crimes on the Bible calendar but the expounders of
the 'Bible do just as badly, even to the incest of
daughters under the pretense at first, that '''all fath-
ers have such a duty to do or their daughters would
die," and afterwards threaten them with certain
murder if they reveal the same.

It is but a few years since such a case occurred in
western N. Y. while the clergyman was officiating
in all his clerical duties for about three years of the
time.

In Herkimer county, K Y., in 1868, a woman
having an only daughter about seventeen years of age
visited her friend at a distance, leaving her daughter
to keep house for her father. She had been absent
but a few hours when the father of the girl asked
her if she knew why her mother had gone on the
visit, and then informed her of the duty of every
father; and how he hated to be obliged to performx
his duty; and that her friend, who died a few weeks
before, would have lived if her father had done so.

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When her mother returned, she was so weary with
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travel that she reclined on her daughter's bed in the
most quiet part of the house. Soon after dark her
daughter, wearied with an unusual day's house work,
retired with her. Late in the evening the husband
and father returned from a neighboring town where he
had been delayed on some business. He came to the
daughter's room and immediately comprehending
the situation took hold of both his daughter's feet
(as he supposed) to awaken her, but through mistake
in one of the feet awakened the wife and mother.

We lectured in the town where this occurred, but
we have considered such a history too obscene to go
through the mails to feed perverted taste, but we
should be derelict in duty if we omitted here to show
the infamous means taken by fathers to lie their own
daughters into harlotry 1

In closing this chapter on Social Evil, we must
impress men with the magnitude of their duty to
women in every relation of life, not forgetting their
protecting power in prisons, station-houses, poor-
houses, asylums and hospitals. All of these are more
/ or less under the actual surveillance of men, when
1 the women are weak in mind, body or morals, and
' more frequently than otherwise in all three regards.
Opportunities are not wanting to make easy facil-
ities for vice, and that they are sometimes improved
by both the doctors, stewards and others is a fact
that cannot be denied, and that is a disgrace to civ-

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ilization, since there are enough competent women
doctors and stewards to manage the women's depart-
ments in all the institutions of the United States.

It is the duty of men to so protect all the women
needing any public charities, and all who are by
them locked up for any cause whatsoever.

They are not assuredly protected as women, unless
every possibility of immorality is removed by women
occupying every position relating to them.

Men are reared with the one idea prominent, that
"there is a necessity for sexual relation with all men,,
and that all sorts of means to gratify their passions-
are in a way honorable," and wrongs to women will
always result with opportunities, until the language
of the nerves is understood, and that there is no suck
" necessity with men" any more than there is w^ith
w^omen. And when hoys are taught, as girls are, to
control their natural passions, they will do so as well^
and when they become men they will from habit be
as pure. There are occasional proofs of this. "When
there are more pure men we shall soon find all ex-
cuses for vice placed where they belong. One of the
llimsiest to keep women in an absurdly unprotected
dress, is that it is unhealthy for women to be cov-
ered. Such talk from doctors, who were either
knaves or were ignoramuses, have many times come
to our ears. The fact is that a great deal of suffer-
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is a trick of tlie lascivious to have the facilities for
vice easy is too patent for further mention, save that
hundreds of women who have worn the reform dress
for over a score of years can testify in regard to such
dress benefiting them in every respect.

We do not know as our duty is done without again
referring to Queen Victoria's domain, and entering
our protest against wrong wherever it exist.

We refer her to the following facts and ask her to
read our chapters on the Language of the ISTerves
and Pure Manhood, with the hopes that the wrong
mentioned will be righted in the following manner.
Pay her common soldiers so that they can afford to
marry ; remove their restrictions on marriage ; re-
peal the Contagious Disease Acts ; make provisions
for the honorable self-support of the hundreds of
thousands of women that have been the victims.

So good a woman as the Queen will not fail to do
what is for the best good of her people when condi-
tions are properly placed before her.

The preventing only one soldier in ten marrying
in the English army has caused the Government to
pass Contagious Disease Acts to protect the soldiers.
These were passed in 1866 and 1869. At the close
of 1874, 245,727 examinations were made on healthy
women and girls. If these had not submitted they
would have been imprisoned.

■ "The ITational Association" for the repeal of the

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infamous acts sent an address to the friends of Mo-
rality and Justice in America, and were represented
by Mr. Henry J. "Wilson and Eev. J. P. Gledstone,
about two years. Since Mr. Wm. Haen, chairman,
and Frederic Charles Banks, secretary of the Asso-
ciation.

The native women in India have committed sui-
/ cide rather than submit to examinotions by State
\ surgeons under the English Government.

In Yokohama, under British government, brothels
have numerals over the doors.

In Hong-Kong brothels are licensed by the Eng-
lish Government.

"We are opposed to having laws to compel vaccina-
tion, for it matters not how many cows the virus has
\ been cleansed by, as long as there is enough of the
*>! poison to inflame the arm there is enough to injure
the system, in insidious ways, that can be understood
by reading the language of the rierves. Better trust
to the possibility of having one poison of small-pox
I in the system than to deliberately introduce what
no one knows how many poisons it contains.

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CHAPTER XI.
" Hernia.

Seven-tenths of the men are afflicted with hernia.
This is too grave a matter to pass over with a mere
mention of the fact.

The jrasoner will at once look for the cause, while
the unfortunate sufferers are testing the remedies.

Since all ages and both sexes are sufferers, we are
surprised that no more remote causes than the cry-
ing of infants, and the severe toil of adults should
he mentioned.

Here is a telling illustration of the truth, that
\women cannot suffer without men being sufferers
€ilso. The ordinary style of woman's dress so debili-
tates the pelvic organs of woman, that they are more
or less prolapsed, as also are her abdominal viscera,
\ the bowels. The whole of the organs of generation
\ in women are weakened by their clothing, l^o petti-
coats, corsets, whalebones or any fastenings around
the waist can be worn without injury to woman's
\ abdominal and pelvic viscera. Men could not wear
■ ' the ordinary clothing of women without injury, but
it would be far less injurious to them than to women,
because they have not women's pelvic organs to pro-
lapse, to displace or otherwise iiijiire.

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But while women dress in this way, their sons are ^
injured through them, to such an extent that many
are born with inguinal hernia. In some cases it does
not appear until a year or two of age. In a large
number of instances, the membraneous tissue over
the bowels and the muscular tissue over them, are so
weakened that hernia is the sure result, from over
work, a misstep, or from even less causes. When men
evolve out of their might of ignorant oppression of
scientific women who are dressing hygienically and
use their influence and money to further general en-
lightment and practice of the true object of clothing,
their sons and grandsons will be free from the sure
tendency to hernia and not until then ; it matters not
what they may think regarding an ignorant standard
of *'taste," that is made by equally ignorant courte-
sans and adopted by them, not as a imnciiile of dress,
for ever-changing fashions cannot be principles. A
reform dress is an embodiment of a principle ; and
as "principles are eternal," men will have the satis-
faction ere long, to find that principles cannot be
destroyed by any sort of oppression, but the real pa-
triots and the true philanthropists, will join with the
philosophers in establishing the same.

Dr. J^onot, the leading man of the profession in
Paris, wrote the author a letter, in which he speaks
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being one of the most fruitful causes of the weak-
nesses and diseases peculiar to women.

Dr. Banning, the great American inventor of uter-
ine elevators^ is explicit regarding the mechanical dis-
placing of the abdominal and pelvic vicera by dress.

Prof. Phelps, of Andover University, acknowl-
edged to be one of the most learned in the profes-
sion, said to his class "that the women of America
would ere long be obliged to doll* petticoats and put
on panta, as the ordinary dress was an injury to the
reproductive organs of woman and her whole nerve

\ system."

It requires a high order of moral courage for a sci-
entific man to express himself on the subject, when
we calmly look the facts in the face, that so large a
\number of the women are monomaniacs on dress !
. The general question now before the American
people is not a monetary one ; it is an invalid one.
But examine the cut where the location of the organs
of generation are plainly seen, and it will not be diffi-
cult for even the average man to comprehend what
we have said regarding the mechanical injury of or-
dinary dress. It needs but little causality to readily
see how hernia is the result of causes mentioned.

While woman's generative organs are affected as
men's cannot be, because they are essentially differ-
ent, so women who have anteversion, retroversion,
inversion and i^rolapsus of the uterus not only trans-

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mit these tendencies to their daughters, but their
^sons have weaknesses of the organs of sex. Thu&
prolapsus of the scrotum may be directly the result
of sexual excess, but there must be a weakened con-
dition inherited to produce such a result, as is also
the case with other difficulties that do not result
from contagion. The law of inheritance is observed
as nearly as is possible with the difference of sex.

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CHAPTER XIL
The Language of the Nerves.

Part First.

Men argue that as the male animals pursue and
force the females to yield, therefore the law of force
in the sexual relations is the natural one for men as
well as animal males; and that "as the male in the
animal creation is always the one to take the initia-
tive step towards the copulative act," that the ques-
tion is thus forever settled that it is best and riorht
for men to pattern after brutes and beasts. As well
might such reasoners tell us that as beasts live in
woods and caves, it is the natural and therefore the
best way for men to live.

But so long as male brutes and beasts pursue the
force system in sexual relation, and not wait until
invited by female brutes and beasts, they can never
rise to a higher condition ; for, while they so degrade
the companion in their most intense nerve associa-
tion, that associate gives back to them enough of the
degradation of force in attempted resistance, to keep
the males down to nearly or quite the same level with
the females, and often below them.

It is an insult to the higher types of brutes to
compare them sexually with average men, for there
are few in the whole animal kingdom that have as

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frequent and excessive sexual relations as do men.
Among the animal exceptions are sheep, and but for
:8uch relationship being limited to a short season, and
<entire rest the most part of the year, the}^ would not
long survive. Sheep-growers have found that 5,000
^wes have conceived in one such season from a single /
male. It is not surprising that sheep should be so
wanting in intelligence when all of their vitality is
expended in sexual relations, for the losses through
this source are losses to the brain ! The same ele-
ments that repair the wastes of the one are requisite
for the other; and hence it follows that those who
have the most power in either direction have the
power to concentrate the greater part of such power
to either the purely intellectual or to the sexual.

Habits of thought and habits of life are magis-
trates, and the reasoner will at once see how import-
ant it is in youth and young manhood to cultivate
the intellectual and higher faculties, and let the mag-
istracy be of an ennobling nature.

But to return. It is not a fact that in the animal
kingdom the males are all tyrants and take the ini-
tiative steps in sex relations, for^ where they are liv-
ing in a natural condition, the relations of the high-
est types of animals are mutual, called forth by the
female. When the males assume rights of force the
females resist, and hence the quarrels. It is said no
other cause of quarrels are known to exist between

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male and female animals. The supreme right of self-
hood asserts itself even in animal motherhood abili-
ties, and resists invasion upon its rights — feebly, per-
haps, but resists.

The very desire for the copulative relation is one
for the result of the relation — the offsprings ; and
yet the love itself is often as much in embryo as the-
offspring itself; so little is the subject understood^
because so little thought upon. And yet no man or
woman can love another truly without a love for the
future offspring that the relation of husband and
wife is to produce. There is something wanting in
pure love devotion if that want and love of posterity
is not felt, even if not expressed. The marriage re-
lation from the first should and would be one of no
false delicacy, but as a pure relation if both men
and women Avere pure and true to themselves before
marriage, reserving their emotions for the one who
was to be the partner of all joys and sorrows through
the dim vista of middle life and old age. What-
ever else influences the youth of both sexes, neither
sex should ever swerve from the one fixed purpose
to love and cherish the future husband or wife, and
never be guilty of act or deed that would destroy or
lessen the confidence in sexual purity. The well-
being and complete confidence and happiness of the
marriage relation demands equal purity, and such
demand cannot be disregarded with impunity. Cu-

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mulative wrongs before marriage tell the tale after
marriage — perhaps not audibly, but tell it just as
plainly to husband or wife. To illustrate, we see,
feel, act, smell, taste and hear all through the nerves.
All these modes of communication are double, ex-
cept the mouth from which we send forth speech ;
and when that refuses to tell the truth there is no
power to stop the little tell-tale nerves. And so
v^when every energy of the whole system is concen-
trated through the most highly sensitive ganglion of
nerves, the life story is told in the ears of the nerves
they meet through the agency of the wonderful
nervo-magnetic fluid; and, although the power to
fully comprehend just what the life of the other has
been may not be possessed by all, yet a sufficient
comprehensive power will be experienced to fully
insure perfect confidence or to convince of decep-
tion, and that of a nature that there is an object in
the deceiver concealing forever.

Part Second.

If men were better informed in regard to women,
they would understand how it is for their ov/n physi-
cal and mental interest to respond to a wife's call, as
the ruling power in all sexual relations. Men would
neyer force, or even coax their wives to yield to them
if the laws of the relation of the sexes were well
understood with all the insidious results of force, or

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or even of coaxing. Such is the construction of the
nerves of the vagina, that w^hen they are not in a
condition to hear friction, they are morhidly sensa-
tive, and if compelled to endure it, either by stronger

\ physical power, or by persuasion, woman feels a
1( repulsion to man through the shock to the sensitive-
nerves, and just as clearly as though he had struck
her in anger. When man uses force to compel
against the desire of woman, even if she is perfectly
healthy, a poison is sent forth from the walls of the-
vagina that injures his whole system, and shortens-
his days. So great is this poison that it sometimes
produces an elongation of the urethra, causing in-
tense pain, and has been thought by those not un-
derstanding the cause to be a cancerous growth.
Some are able to walk about when thus afflicted ^
but months elapse before restoration is possible.

The poison that produces this result, is an abnor-
mal forcing of the natural secretions of the vagina^
that are farther poisoned by the stinging nerves of
the vagina that act on the nerves of the penis Avhen
in the highest and most susceptible condition possi-
ble to any part of the system, and when beyond his
power to resist the influences that are sent with more
than lightning speed all through his whole nerve sys-

\^ tern. It is in this way that the "copper blowing^
lis accomplished in England.

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The angiy wife holds a copper penny in her mouth
and when the orgasm is perfected by the infamous
husband who forces her to yield to him ; she blows .
with nearly closed mouth and poisons him to death/
These two kinds of poisoning can be readily under-
stood when we realize that the poison of a snake is
harmless, unless the snake is angry and throws its
venom into an otherwise harmless secretion, (as its
only means of defense.) Women unconsciously use
the first poison spoken of as their only means of de-
fence against repetitions of tyranny, and in aggra-
vated cases, have used the ''copper blowing" as a
\perpetual relief from a tyranny worse than death.

ITothino; in life more aocsravates and ano;ers women
than any advantage taken of the sexual relation, but
men who complain of unappreciative and cross wives
are generally utterly ignorant of the cause of the-
same, and often out of real spite to punish them for
something, compel them to submit to the sexual re-
lation, when they do not dare to strike them for fear
of law finding the marks.

Men see that these niarital rapes quiet their wives
for a time through fear of repetition, not fully under-
standing that the very quiet is a debility that will
effect themselves as soon as a repetition is resorted to,,
and as soon as nature has struggled sufficiently to as-
sert her right of individuality in woman, she feels the
same anger so intensified that she resolves to kill her

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tormentor as a sure means of getting rid of a vile man
that torments outside of the redress of common law.

But if these men do not pay for such conduct by
losing their lives, they pay dearly for such fiendish
cruelty in their old years, by having helpless and
loveless wives who lose all confidence in them and
all interest in anything that relates to their comfort.

The same unhappy feelings and unrest of soul that
they caused their wives, is taken back upon them-
selves by the very relationship that gives little else
to such men than a fiendish gratification that never
soothes and charms, but instead, exhausts and leaves
about as pleasant emotions as the conquest of killing
a snake. And the wife instead of being left ten-
derly as wives expect and have a right to expect to be,
they are left with about the same emotions of in-
difierence as a dead snake would be left, or as a sav-
age leaves a white woman after his captive raping
of a woman who has been an hour in his possession,
too frightened to have the power to even attempt a
hopeless resistance.

And yet with this terribly truthful picture be-
fore us, with the mass of men feeling that they have
a right to demand of wives and compel obedience in
sexual relations, we look upon men with a charity
that only one who has gone into the metaphysics of
social life is capable. For no woman has enlighten-
ed them upon the subject of real causes, and iin-

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mistakable effects, and no man lias had the facilities
to trace effect to cause and cause to effect as we have
had, and no woman, save a professional one, could
delve into social life with a full comprehension of
causes and remedies.

The whole question of the essential part is settled
by ico/nan alirays having supreme control of htr j^t rson.
as regards an invasion by men.

The sexual relation should be for posterity, and as
soon as this is accomplished, there should be no other
relation until another child is desired. _^ Xo woman
properl}-^ balanced and witli perfectly healthy sexual
organs lias a desire for such relationship, and if she
submits to the same, the Language of the Xerves is
such that the child in embryo is so taught sensuality
that the coming man or woman is affected for life
with such antenatal inlluences. The prospective
mother begins to hate the embryonic child, as her
maternal love is all clouded or destroyed by sensu-
ality, and she begins to devise ways and means to
dtstroy^ instead of cherishing the little unseen. It
matters little whether woman is a willing or unwilling
victim of sensuality, whether as a wife or a promis-
cuous mistress, the love of posterity is destroyed, and
the woman who fails to rid herself of her unwel-
come charge, brings into existence a sensualist, a
thief, a robber, a hermaphrodite, or at best an inhar-
monious specimen of humanity, that hates its parents
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for being compelled to have such an unwelcome ex
istence. All through the period of its embryonic life
the Language of the Nerves is constantly taught,
and the sentiments pervade every cell of the poor
little piece of infantile helplessness.

The truer one is to self, (other things being equal,)
the deeper and grander the thoughts. Who can tell
to what depths of unknown science the human mind
is capable of evoluting, if the nervo-magnetic powers
are not injured in utero, or by themselves in con-
scious existence. What grandeur of comprehension
of the eternal principles of brain power the evolution
of thought shall yet give to the world, depends on pure
manhood and pure womanhood to demonstrate

It is deplorable, that many of the deepest minds, the
most metaphysical reasoners, the clearest logicians,
the grandest scientists and the purest moralists among
women, must look in vain for their equals in all these
regards, and die without leaving to the world speci-
mens of humanity that shall be superior to themselves
and capable of delving into the grandeurs and sub-
limities that are now beyond conscious possibilities.

If through the evolution of our thoughts, as con-
tained in this little volume, the women of the future,
on both sides of the great waters, shall have better
conditions, w^e shall feel that our earth life has been
one of noble effort, that no amount of contumely
from the degraded can rob of pure satisfaction.

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